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Source Description
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 empty it.Much later, the text describing this happy occasion became a popular subject among artists, some of whom emphasized landscape, others the activities of the increasingly inebriated participants. This unsigned scroll is not easy to date. It has been dyed to make it look older than it actually is, but artificial aging has been practiced for centuries in China.
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Document identity
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21801
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The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
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21801
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title
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
description
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 empty it.Much later, the text describing this happy occasion became a popular subject among artists, some of whom emphasized landscape, others the activities of the increasingly inebriated participants. This unsigned scroll is not easy to date. It has been dyed to make it look older than it actually is, but artificial aging has been practiced for centuries in China.
provenance
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.
date
17th-19th century
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CC0
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en
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emakimono
hand scrolls
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1
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1
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cm
width
29.3
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530.4
dimensionsRaw
H: 11 9/16 x L: 208 13/16 in. (29.3 x 530.4 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Seal] At end on painting
dynasty
Qing [Ch'ing] Dynasty
med
ink and color on silk mounted on paper
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17949
6238
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CHN
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none
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photo
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