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Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

Purification at the Orchid Pavilion

1671
(Chinese, c. 1615–before 1688)
China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); Overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1977.47
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The gathering’s host is in the Orchid Pavilion at the end of the scroll, representing an episode known as “Wang Xizhi Watching the Geese 王羲之觀鵝圖.”

Description

By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme.

Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering.
  • Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1837–1924]
    ?–1977
    Wong Kwan-Shut 黃君實 [b. 1934], Kansas City, Missouri, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1977–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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