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"title_in_original_language": "Purification at the Orchid Pavilion",
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"inscription": "F. M. Mayer Christie's 24/5 June '74. 123",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1974",
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"title": "Scholar's Studio",
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"title": "Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c)",
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"title": "China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta",
"description": "China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).",
"opening_date": "2023-09-10T04:00:00"
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"description": "Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).",
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"description": "Frederick M. Mayer [1899\u20131974], New York, NY, consigned to Christie's for sale",
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"date": "?\u20131974",
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"did_you_know": "A stylized wave pattern represents water; land areas are covered in an overall diamond pattern.",
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"description": "This lacquer panel, perhaps part of a piece of furniture, depicts the Gathering at Lanting in 353 CE that took place during the Spring Purification Festival, a day spent traditionally outside in nature. Here, cups of wine are set afloat on a winding stream as part of a poetry competition among the attendants.
By the Ming dynasty the painting theme Gathering at Lanting also appeared on lacquer, jade, and porcelain. The main figure and central motif, Calligrapher Wang Xizhi Watching Geese, has been moved toward the upper register of the composition.",
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"citation": "Christie, Manson & Woods, London. The Frederick M. Mayer Collection of Chinese Art. June 24\u201325, 1974 sale. Lot 123.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1974.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 3 (March 1975): 62\u2013102.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no 183, p. 103",
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"citation": "\u201cAnnual Report for 1974.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 62, no. 6 (June 1975): 175\u2013209.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 189",
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"citation": "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",
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"citation": "Griswold, William, Xiaofei Tian, Richard Von Glahn, Feng Zhao, S. J. Vainker, Masaaki Itakura, Jiang Wu, et al. China\u2019s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. Edited by Clarissa von Spee. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.",
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