id: 147976 accession number: 1974.72 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.72 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:36.657000 Gathering at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion), 1400s–1500s. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Carved cinnabar-red lacquer; overall: 48.5 x 21 cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.72 title: Gathering at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion) title in original language: Purification at the Orchid Pavilion series: series in original language: creation date: 1400s–1500s creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1599 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644) technique: Carved cinnabar-red lacquer department: Chinese Art collection: China - Ming Dynasty type: Lacquer find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 48.5 x 21 cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: 大明宣德年製 translation: remark: inscription: F. M. Mayer Christie's 24/5 June '74. 123 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). title: Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques opening date: 1981-02-07T05:00:00 Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 7-April 5, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Scholar's Studio opening date: 1989-09-19T04:00:00 Scholar's Studio. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 19-December 17, 1989). title: Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c) opening date: 2017-02-11T05:00:00 Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 11-August 13, 2017). title: China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta opening date: 2023-09-10T04:00:00 China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).', 'opening_date': '1983-02-27T05:00:00Z'} --- PROVENANCE Frederick M. Mayer [1899–1974], New York, NY, consigned to Christie's for sale date: ?–1974 footnotes: citations: (Christie's, London, England, June 24–25, 1974 sale, lot no. 123, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: June 24–25, 1974 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1974– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Christie, Manson & Woods, London. The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art. June 24–25, 1974 sale. Lot 123. page number: url: Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62–102. page number: Mentioned: cat. no 183, p. 103 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152580 “Annual Report for 1974.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 6 (June 1975): 175–209. page number: Reproduced: p. 189 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152593 Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: fig. 27, p. 43 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.72/1974.72_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.72/1974.72_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.72/1974.72_full.tif