Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang (1628–61): Art, History and Details

Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang (1628–61) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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

Object facts

• Title: Brush Pot with Episode from Life on Sima Guang
• Date: 1628–61
• Culture: China, Jiangxi Province, Jingdezhen, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi period (1644–61)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
• Dimensions: Diameter: 20.2 cm (7 15/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
• Collection: China - Ming Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1964.179

Collection credit

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.