Purification at the Orchid Pavilion
c. 1500
Maker Unknown
Chinese Art
Purification at the Orchid Pavilion, c. 1500. China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Carved cinnabar lacquer; overall: 48.5 x 21 cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.72 A stylized wave pattern represents water; land areas are covered in an overall diamond pattern.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Lacquer
- Formatted Medium
- carved cinnabar lacquer
- Dimensions
- Overall: 48.5 x 21 cm (19 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: F. M. Mayer Christie's 24/5 June '74. 123 Remark: Oval sticker on back of the panel
- Departments
- Chinese Art
- Accession Number
- 1974.72
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1974, Chinese Paintings: Themes and Techniques, Visions of Landscape: East and West, Scholar's Studio, Greeting the Spring (Chinese art rotation, galleries 240a, 239, 241c), <em>Arts of China from The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH (February 27-April 10, 1983).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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