Category:Shiba Onkō design

English: The Shiba Onkō design show the Song dynasty scholar Sima Guang (司馬光), known in Japan as Shiba Kō, saving a child from drowning by smashing the large jar the boy has fallen into so that the water can run out. It was a popular decoration in late Ming pottery and lacquer, and has been depicted in Japanese pottery as well as netsuke and tsuba of swords. The factory in Meissen reproduced the pattern around 1730, and Dutch enamellers recreated it on porcelain fired in China or Japan between 1710 and 1735. The English factory Chelsea created the motif, known also as "Hob in the well", around 1755.