Period:Unknown Production date:1815
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:landscape poetry
Dimensions:Height: 131.20 centimetres (mount) Height: 108.50 centimetres Width: 46.50 centimetres (mount) Width: 36.20 centimetres
Description:
Painting, hanging scroll. Calligrapher Wang Xizhi and his companions enjoying a poem competition party by the winding stream at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion); wine cups afloat on meandering stream; cherry trees in bloom. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
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![图片[1]-painting; hanging scroll BM-1982-0520-0.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00036393_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-painting; hanging scroll BM-1982-0520-0.2-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Paintings/mid_00540041_001.jpg)
Comments:Hizo Nihon bijutsu taikan Vol 3On the third of the third month in the year 353, under the Eastern Jin dynasty, the celebrated calligrapher Wang Xizhi carried out a purification ceremony at Lanting on Mt. Huiji in Zhejiang Province. On that occasion, he is said to have amused himself and his companions by setting a wine cup afloat on a meandering stream, commanding each of them in turn to compose a poem before the cup reached him, on pain of being obliged to drink the wine if he failed to do so. The present work depicts the party by the stream at Lanting. The third of the third month was the Peach (Girls’) Festival, and the depiction of literary men furiously wracking their brains under the peach blossoms is amusing.
Materials:silk
Technique:painted
Subjects:landscape poetry
Dimensions:Height: 131.20 centimetres (mount) Height: 108.50 centimetres Width: 46.50 centimetres (mount) Width: 36.20 centimetres
Description:
Painting, hanging scroll. Calligrapher Wang Xizhi and his companions enjoying a poem competition party by the winding stream at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion); wine cups afloat on meandering stream; cherry trees in bloom. Ink and colour on silk. Signed and sealed.
IMG
Comments:Hizo Nihon bijutsu taikan Vol 3On the third of the third month in the year 353, under the Eastern Jin dynasty, the celebrated calligrapher Wang Xizhi carried out a purification ceremony at Lanting on Mt. Huiji in Zhejiang Province. On that occasion, he is said to have amused himself and his companions by setting a wine cup afloat on a meandering stream, commanding each of them in turn to compose a poem before the cup reached him, on pain of being obliged to drink the wine if he failed to do so. The present work depicts the party by the stream at Lanting. The third of the third month was the Peach (Girls’) Festival, and the depiction of literary men furiously wracking their brains under the peach blossoms is amusing.
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