painting;
hanging scroll;
storage box
- Museum number
- 1913,0501,0.439
- Title
- Object: Rantei zu 蘭亭図 (Elegant Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion)
- Description
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Painting, hanging scroll. The poetry gathering at the Orchid Pavilion, with Wang Xizhi and other Chinese scholars seated in a pavilion, and along the banks of a stream among the mountains. Ink and colour on silk. Signed, sealed and inscribed. With original paulownia storage box.
- Production date
- 1872
- Dimensions
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Height: 151.50 centimetres
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Width: 55.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This work is reproduced and discussed in Rosina Buckland, 'Painting Nature for the Nation: Taki Katei and the Challenges to Sinophile Culture in Meiji Japan' (Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 61-62.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2012 Sep – 2013 Apr, BM G91, ‘Ritual and revelry: the art of drinking in Asia'
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- The collection of Japanese and Chinese paintings belonging to Arthur Morrison was purchased by Sir William Gwynne-Evans, who presented it to the British Museum in 1913.
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- 1913,0501,0.439
- Additional IDs
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Asia painting number: Jap.Ptg.2268 (Japanese Painting Number)
