Vase with King Wen Visiting the Scholar Jiang Taigong

The narratives painted on the four sides of the vase were most likely based on similar scenes in woodblock illustrations. The solitary angler at the upper left identifies the scene as a historical narrative, set in the twelfth or eleventh century B.C., in which a ruler named Wen seeks the advice of a scholar named Jiang Taigong.
Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Shunzhi period (1644–61)