id: 149116 accession number: 1977.47 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.47 updated: 2023-03-20 14:47:52.146000 Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, 1671. Fan Yi (Chinese, c. 1615-before 1688). Handscroll, ink and color on silk; image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1977.47 title: Purification at the Orchid Pavilion title in original language: 蘭亭修禊圖 series: series in original language: creation date: 1671 creation date earliest: 1671 creation date latest: 1671 current location: creditline: Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: handscroll, ink and color on silk department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fan Yi (Chinese, c. 1615-before 1688) - artist --- measurements: Image: 28.4 x 392.8 cm (11 3/16 x 154 5/8 in.); Overall: 29.8 x 763.3 cm (11 3/4 x 300 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: Painted by Fan Yi of Zhongfu during the second month of winter of the xinhai year [1671]. [2 seals] Fan Yi zhi yin, Zi yu yi. translation: remark: inscription: Title on the frontispiece by Monk Yueshan (1629-1709). translation: remark: inscription: 3 colophons and 13 additional seals: 1 colophon, dated 1707, and 6 seals of Yueshan; 2 colophons and 3 seals of Wong Kwan-Shut (Huang Junshi) 黃君實 (b. 1934); 2 seals of Fu Shen 傅 申 (b. 1937); 2 seals of Tessai Tomioka 富岡鐵齋 (1836-1924). translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1977 opening date: 1977-12-28T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978). 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: 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (November 7, 1980-January 4, 1981); The Cleveland Museum of Art (February 10-March 29, 1981); Tokyo National Museum (October 4-November 17, 1982). * Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 122). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 23-October 27, 2003). --- PROVENANCE Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1837–1924] date: footnotes: citations: Wong Kwan-Shut 黃君實 [b. 1934], Kansas City, Missouri, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1977 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1977– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The gathering’s host is in the Orchid Pavilion at the end of the scroll, representing an episode known as “Wang Xizhi Watching the Geese 王羲之觀鵝圖.” digital description: wall description: This painting records a historic event in the year AD 353. During the Spring Purification Festival on the third day of the third month in the Chinese calendar, 42 scholars gathered at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing in southeast China to compose poems and engage in a drinking contest. Wine cups were floated down a winding creek as the men sat along its banks; whenever a cup stopped, the one closest to the cup had to empty it and write a poem. At the end of the day, the calligrapher Wang Xizhi assembled 37 poems and wrote the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Gathering in his elegant script style. It became the most famous model for calligraphy in Chinese art history. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980. page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 218, pp. 287-288 url: Williams, Marjorie. Chinese Painting--an Escape from the "Dusty" World. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: fig. 26, p. 42 url: Graham, Patricia Jane. Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1998. page number: p. 51, no. 8 url: Chan Tat Chuen, William. A la table de l'empereur de Chine. Arles: Éditions Philippe Picquier, 2002. page number: pp. 34-35 url: Li, T. June. Another World Lies Beyond: Creating Liu Fang Yuan, the Huntington's Chinese Garden. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 2009. page number: p. 70 url: Chou, Ju-hsi and Anita Chung. Silent poetry: Chinese paintings from the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 374-378 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.47/1977.47_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.47/1977.47_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1977.47/1977.47_full.tif