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![The painting depicts three fishes below a calligraphic poem. The poem goes: "I once painted Three Fish and inscribed it: painting is what I did in the time remaining after work, poetry in the time remaining after sleep, and calligraphy in the time remaining after carving. This is what I call the three remaining." (in Chinese, "fish" and "remaining" are pronounced the same)](/media/W1siZiIsIjIwMjIvMDUvMjUvM3V6aDd6bnZmdV9kZWZhdWx0LmpwZyJdLFsicCIsInRodW1iIiwiMjQweDIwMCJdXQ?sha=bda759ec12b36bd1 "The painting depicts three fishes below a calligraphic poem. The poem goes: "I once painted Three Fish and inscribed it: painting is what I did in the time remaining after work, poetry in the time remaining after sleep, and calligraphy in the time remaining after carving. This is what I call the three remaining." (in Chinese, "fish" and "remaining" are pronounced the same)")
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The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Accession Number
1974/1.244
Title
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Artist(s)
Sheng Maoye
Object Creation Date
1621
Medium & Support
handscroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
12 ¼ in x 84 ½ in (31.12 cm x 214.63 cm);12 in x 84 ½ in (30.48 cm x 214.63 cm);12 7/16 in (31.59 cm);x 12 15/16 in x 32.86 cm;3 ¾ in x 14 9/16 in x 3 ¼ in (9.53 cm x 36.99 cm x 8.25 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
Subject matter
This elegant handscroll brings to life a famous historical event, a literary gathering of forty-one scholars celebrating the annual Spring Purification Festival at the Orchid Pavilion in the city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. Held on the third day of the third month in the year 353, on this special occasion literati enjoyed a ritual drinking game which incorporated composing poetry. Cups of wine, resting on large leaves, were floated down a stream and if a scholar could not recite a suitable poem, he had to drink a cup of wine. The celebration grew ever merrier as retrieving wine cups became more precarious.
What made this particular gathering so memorable was the presence of the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi (303–361). Inside the pavilion Wang is seated at a table writing his preface to the collected poems of this gathering. His preface, which vividly describes the event and laments the rapid passage of time, is a classic of Chinese literature and calligraphy.
Physical Description
Handscroll depicting figures (42 men and 6 boys) in a landscape, most of whom are sitting along the banks of a stream as cups on lotus leaves float by. A small cluster of figures sits in a shelter over the water examining a handscroll. The painting includes an inscription, six artist’s seals and one collector’s seal.
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
handscroll
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
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Keywords
Drinking
Landscapes
Wen ren
bamboo (material)
bridges
cups (drinking vessels)
drinking
figures in landscape
footbridges
handscrolls
history
men (male humans)
orchid
streams
trees
1974/1.244
Title
The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Artist(s)
Sheng Maoye
Object Creation Date
1621
Medium & Support
handscroll, ink and color on silk
Dimensions
12 ¼ in x 84 ½ in (31.12 cm x 214.63 cm);12 in x 84 ½ in (30.48 cm x 214.63 cm);12 7/16 in (31.59 cm);x 12 15/16 in x 32.86 cm;3 ¾ in x 14 9/16 in x 3 ¼ in (9.53 cm x 36.99 cm x 8.25 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the Margaret Watson Parker Art Collection Fund
Subject matter
This elegant handscroll brings to life a famous historical event, a literary gathering of forty-one scholars celebrating the annual Spring Purification Festival at the Orchid Pavilion in the city of Shaoxing, Zhejiang province. Held on the third day of the third month in the year 353, on this special occasion literati enjoyed a ritual drinking game which incorporated composing poetry. Cups of wine, resting on large leaves, were floated down a stream and if a scholar could not recite a suitable poem, he had to drink a cup of wine. The celebration grew ever merrier as retrieving wine cups became more precarious.
What made this particular gathering so memorable was the presence of the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi (303–361). Inside the pavilion Wang is seated at a table writing his preface to the collected poems of this gathering. His preface, which vividly describes the event and laments the rapid passage of time, is a classic of Chinese literature and calligraphy.
Physical Description
Handscroll depicting figures (42 men and 6 boys) in a landscape, most of whom are sitting along the banks of a stream as cups on lotus leaves float by. A small cluster of figures sits in a shelter over the water examining a handscroll. The painting includes an inscription, six artist’s seals and one collector’s seal.
Primary Object Classification
Painting
Primary Object Type
handscroll
Collection Area
Asian
Rights
If you are interested in using an image for a publication, please visit http://umma.umich.edu/request-image for more information and to fill out the online Image Rights and Reproductions Request Form.
Keywords
Drinking
Landscapes
Wen ren
bamboo (material)
bridges
cups (drinking vessels)
drinking
figures in landscape
footbridges
handscrolls
history
men (male humans)
orchid
streams
trees
