id: 149662 accession number: 1979.54 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1979.54 updated: 2023-03-11 20:51:12.001000 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 series: series in original language: creation date: 1848 creation date earliest: 1848 creation date latest: 1848 current location: creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund copyright: --- culture: China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911) technique: handscroll, ink on paper department: Chinese Art collection: ASIAN - Handscroll type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Dai Xi (Chinese, 1801–1860) - artist --- measurements: Image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: 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. translation: remark: 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. translation: remark: 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]. trans. LYSL/WKH translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1979 opening date: 1980-02-13T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980). --- 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). --- PROVENANCE Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: ?–1979 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1979– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Dai Xi actively resisted the Taiping rebels and drowned himself after their 1860 capture of his hometown, Hangzhou. For this loyal deed, Dai was posthumously rewarded with a temple built in his name. digital description: The subject is not just Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang Province, the ancient seat of the most powerful Buddhist sect of Sui and Tang dynasties, but records a specific occasion in 1838 when an official visited Tiantai and began the reconstruction of a historic pavilion. As this coincided with the end of a long drought, the building was auspiciously renamed the Yulai (Rain-Coming 雨來) Pavilion. Ten years later, Dai Xi painted this handscroll to commemorate the occasion. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 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. 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. 282, pp. 382-383 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.54/1979.54_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.54/1979.54_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.54/1979.54_full.tif