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Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
1628-1661
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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
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- Title: Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
- Date Created: 1628-1661
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: John L. Severance, Cleveland; Severance and Greta Millikin
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1964.179
- Medium: porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Department: Chinese Art
- Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644-61)
- Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
- Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
- Accession Number: 1964.179
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