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Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

c. 1500

China, Ming dynasty

(1368–1644)

Carved cinnabar lacquer

Overall: 48.5 x 21 cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.72

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not on view

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A stylized wave pattern represents water; land areas are covered in an overall diamond pattern.

Description

The Spring Purification Festival is celebrated outdoors at the waterside and often includes a picnic. This finely carved lacquer panel depicts the historic event of the Spring Purification Festival at the Orchid Pavilion in the year AD 353. The gathering at the Orchid Pavilion is one of the most popular themes in Chinese art, recognizable by scholars sitting along a winding creek on which wine cups were set afloat.

Inscriptions

Inscription

F. M. Mayer Christie's 24/5 June '74. 123

Inscription Remark

Oval sticker on back of the panel

Provenance

?–1974

Frederick M. Mayer [1899–1974], New York, NY, consigned to Christie's for sale

June 24–25, 1974

(Christie's, London, England, June 24–25, 1974 sale, lot no. 123, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1974–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Christie, Manson & Woods, London. The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art. June 24–25, 1974 sale. Lot 123.

Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102. Mentioned: cat. no 183, p. 103 www.jstor.org

“Annual Report for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 6 (June 1975): 175–209. Reproduced: p. 189 www.jstor.org

Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 27, p. 43

Exhibition history

Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).

Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981).

Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982).

Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989).

Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017).

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