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Floating Wine Cups on a Winding Stream (Orchid Pavilion Gathering) 曲水流觴 (蘭亭集) 図
1816-1867
2000.21
Not currently on view
Artwork Details
58-7/8 x 22-3/8 in. (image) 85-1/2 x 30 in. (overall) 85-7/8 x 30 x 1-1/4 in. (as installed)
Periodsigned: Chikkei Hayashi Narishige (Rin Seigyō) ga 竹渓林成業画 square intaglio seal: Seigyō no in 成業之印 square intaglio seal: Azana Shōfu 字紹
Accession NumberMr. and Mrs. Richard Crane Fund
CopyrightAsian Art (Japanese and Korean)
Color PalettePurchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2000.
In 353, the celebrated calligrapher Wang Xizhi invited 41 scholar-poets to the Orchid Pavilion (Lanting) for the annual Spring Purification Festival. Guests sat along a meandering stream while servants floated cups of wine downstream. Any poet who failed to compose a poem by the time his cup reached him was made to drink a "penalty cup," leading before long to a creative state of inebriation. Wang collected the poems and then wrote his famous Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Compilation. Immortalized in Chinese painting as a paragon of refined scholarly pleasure, the Lanting gathering was adopted as a subject and revered especially by Japanese painters of the Nanga School.
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