The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
1628–61
Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
Location: 238 Chinese Ceramics
Description
Painted in a continuous scene around the cylindrical body is an episode from a folktale about Sima Guang (1019-86), a renowned Northern Song statesman and scholar who exercised quick thinking in his childhood when he broke a ceramic vat filled with water to rescue a drowning playmate- John L. Severance, Cleveland; Severance and Greta Millikin
- The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).1990 Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection, July 5-September 2, 1990: no. 35.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.179