id: 148864
accession number: 1977.1
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Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion, late 1700s. Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733-1795). Six-panel folding screen; ink and slight color on paper; image: 83 x 191.8 cm (32 11/16 x 75 1/2 in.); overall: 95.7 x 204.5 cm (37 11/16 x 80 1/2 in.); open and extended: 83 x 243 cm (32 11/16 x 95 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1977.1
title: Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion
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creation date: late 1700s
creation date earliest: 1755
creation date latest: 1795
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: Japan, Edo period (1615-1868)
technique: Six-panel folding screen; ink and slight color on paper
department: Japanese Art
collection: ASIAN - Folding screen
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Maruyama Ōkyo (Japanese, 1733-1795) - artist
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measurements: Image: 83 x 191.8 cm (32 11/16 x 75 1/2 in.); Overall: 95.7 x 204.5 cm (37 11/16 x 80 1/2 in.); Open and extended: 83 x 243 cm (32 11/16 x 95 11/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections
opening date: 1977-03-23T04:00:00
Japanese Screens from the Museum and Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 23-May 8, 1977).
title: Year in Review: 1977
opening date: 1977-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).
title: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen
opening date: 1984-08-01T04:00:00
Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 1-October 14, 1984).
title: Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting
opening date: 1985-10-01T04:00:00
Suibokuga: Japanese Ink Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 1, 1985-February 24, 1986).
title: Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen
opening date: 1987-12-08T05:00:00
Byobu: The Art of the Japanese Screen. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 8, 1987-January 10, 1988).
title: Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection
opening date: 1991-09-17T04:00:00
Asian Autumn: Masterpieces from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 17, 1991-January 5, 1992).
title: Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan
opening date: 1993-11-16T05:00:00
Asian Autumn: Splendid Variety: 18th-Century Art in Japan. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1993-March 6, 1994).
title: Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1998-02-21T00:00:00
Highlights of Asian Paintings from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Nara National Museum (organizer) (February 21-March 29, 1998); Suntory Museum of Art (April 28-June 21, 1998).
title: Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2001-07-15T00:00:00
Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 15-September 16, 2001).
title: The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art
opening date: 2011-03-27T00:00:00
The Lure of Painted Poetry: Cross-cultural Text and Image in Korean and Japanese Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 15-August 21, 2011).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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A cheerful gathering of poets was one the most popular themes of East Asian literati paintings. Literary Gathering in the Orchid Pavilion depicts a poets’ party hosted in AD 353 by the famous Chinese calligrapher Wang Xizhi to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, observed annually on the third day of the third month. Wang invited 41 scholar-poets to compose poetry and drink while seated along the bank of a winding rivulet. This screen would have appeared on the left and shows preparations for the gathering. The lost right screen is assumed to have depicted the poets sitting along the stream.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 385
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n405
Cleveland Museum of Art. Tōyō kaiga no seika: Kurīvurando Bijutsukan no korekushon kara : tokubetsuten. 1998.
page number: Reproduced: pp 136-137, cat. no. 89
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Cunningham, Michael R. Unfolding Beauty: Japanese Screens from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: pp. 56-57. Cat. no. 25
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Cleveland Museum of Art, and Sŭng-hye Sŏn. The Lure of Painted Poetry: Japanese and Korean Art. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2011.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 7
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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.1/1977.1_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.1/1977.1_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.1/1977.1_full.tif