The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

17th-19th century

530.4 cm 29.3 cm

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In 353, forty-two high officials who were also poets gathered at the Orchid Pavilion to celebrate a spring festival. The poems they composed were judged, and the losers had to take a stick, retrieve one of the wine-filled cups that had been ingeniously sent down the river, and...

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Dr. John C. Ferguson [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John C. Ferguson Collection Sale, American Art Association, April 7, 1916, no. 228 [as by Tang Yin, ca. 1525]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1916, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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