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The Orchid Pavilion Gathering

CultureChinese
Date17th century
Mediumink and colors on silk, mounted on hanging scroll
Dimensionssheet: 58 x 15 in. (147.3 x 38.1 cm)
mount: 81 x 21 in. (205.7 x 53.3 cm)
Classificationspaintings
Credit LineGift of Elizabeth Lee Chiego and William J. Chiego in honor of Ruth and Sherman Lee
Object number2013.32
DescriptionLandscape with a stream flowing from a mountain at top left down the length of the scroll. Wine cups float down the stream and scholar-gentry (literati) line its banks. Near the center a scholar, presumably Wang Xizhi, writes on a scroll in a pavilion.
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Collections
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Zhi Qian
1669
Calligraphy
Zhang Baixi 張百忌熙
n.d.
Sleeping Ox
Nakahara Nantenbō
1921
Bamboo and Orchid
Xia Yiqiao
1983
Orchids and Rock with Calligraphy
Su Hang Pak
19th century
Kasuga (Shrine) Mandala
Unidentified artist
13th-14th century
Mountainous Landscape
Qing Yong Mingshan
1666
The Scholar-Gentleman Washes His Feet
Zhang Lu
16th century (Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644)
Jizo Bosatsu
Unidentified artist
late 13th - early 14th century
Landscape
Unidentified artist
late 13th or 14th century, Southern Song or Yuan Dynasty