The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 13, 2025
Jar
1522–66
(1368–1644), Jiajing mark and reign (1522–66)
Overall: 34.6 cm (13 5/8 in.)
Worcester R. Warner Collection 1917.13
Location: 238 Chinese Ceramics
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The jar with brilliant cobalt blue decoration depicts the four seasons and stages in the life of a scholar-official.Description
The jar is painted with vibrant underglaze cobalt blue depicting the four seasons and stages in the life of a scholar-official.In the first scene, a scholar leaves his home in spring hoping to pass the civil service examinations in the city. In the autumn scene, he successfully returns on a horse, prepared for a career at court. The summer scene shows him as an aged man watching his offspring play along a lake. The winter scene depicts him writing while attendants offer him hot tea and break the ice for fresh water from the pond in the foreground.
- Magrath Collection?–1917Worcester R. Warner [1846–1929], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art1917–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).The Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977).
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