Cleveland Museum of Art
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion
Fan YiLinkedCulture matchlcp-d59b815da80c
- Date
- 1671
- Medium
- Handscroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
- Department
- Chinese Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 149116
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
By the 1600s, the historic gathering at Lanting, Zhejiang province, in 353 CE was a common theme in Chinese painting. Originally based on a composition attributed to Li Gonglin (1049– 1106), now lost, Wu school artists revived the theme. Fan Yi, the brother of the artist Fan Qi from Nanjing, used delicate brushwork and luminous colors to depict the spring gathering. 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.”
The authoritative record is held by Cleveland Museum of Art. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.
Get printable QR codesHide QR codes
Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.
Provenance & credit
As published by the source institution. Coverage varies — not every institution's open-data feed includes ownership history.
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Wai-kam Ho and the Womens Council of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Provenance
- Tomioka Tessai 富岡鐵齋 [1837–1924], Kyoto, Japan | ?–1977: Wong Kwan-Shut 黃君實 [b. 1934], Kansas City, Missouri, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1977–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Related across collections
Semantically similar works from Cleveland Museum of Art and other institutions.