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accession number:	1979.54
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Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai, 1848. Dai Xi (Chinese, 1801–1860). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1979.54

title:				Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai
title in original language:	天台石梁, 雨來亭圖
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creation date:			1848
creation date earliest:		1848
creation date latest:		1848
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
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culture:	China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	handscroll, ink on paper
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	ASIAN - Handscroll
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Dai Xi (Chinese, 1801–1860)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Artist's inscription, signature, and 2 seals: 

Painting of Rain-Coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mount Tiantai. In the twenty-eighth year of the Daoguang era [1848], the third lunar month, requested by and painted for Pan Gongfu 潘功甫 [Pan Zengyi 潘曾沂], a senior family friend. [signed] Your junior, Dai Xi from Qiantang. 
[seal] Hebi jian Dai 何必見戴. 
[seal, lower right corner] Shih-ping yeh.
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	inscription:	Title on frontispiece and 3 seals of Ruan Yuan (1764-1849). 1 colophon and 10 additional seals: 1 colophon, dated 1838, and 8 seals of Pan Zengyi (1792-1853); 2 seals unidentified.
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	inscription:	Colophon by Pan Zengyi:
The T'anhua [a flower that blooms only momentarily in semi-tropical areas] Pavilion near Shiliang [the natural stone bridge] was built by the Grand Chancellor Jia. It lasted over seven hundred years. After it was destroyed this year, I happened to be there, so I suggested it be reconstructed. Among the six poems commemorating my visit, one reads:

The career of the Prime Minister may be as great as the rivers and lakes,/
Unaware himself of the fact there is leaking./
I had been all over the seventy-two peaks of P'eng-lai mountains/
When the timely rain came to T'an-hua Pavilion.

	It had not been raining for a long time there, then unexpectedly, the rain came simultaneously with my arrival; the old monk there asked me to change the name to Rain-Coming Pavilion, in order to record the joy. The hilly fields at Mt. Tiantai have suffered by droughts. If, from this year on, they have the timely rain to bring along bountiful harvests and make people happy - so may this pavilion be our witness.
	Hsiao-fu shan-jen, Pan Zengyi recorded this on the first day of the twelfth lunar month in the wuxu year [1838]. Chiang Yung-ching copied respectfully on the first day of the sixth lunar month in the wushen year [1848].

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1979
	opening date:   1980-02-13T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1979</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting</em>. 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).', 'opening_date': '1981-02-10T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1979
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1979–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 122, p. 87
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159667

	Ho, Wai-kam, Sherman E. Lee, Laurence Sickman, and Marc F. Wilson. <em>Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1980.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 282, pp. 382-383
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