Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion. Artist: Qian Gu (Chinese, 1508-ca. 1578). Culture: China. Dimensions: Image: 9 1/2 x 171 1/2 in. (24.1 x 435.6 cm)Overall with mounting: 9 3/4 x 491 3/8 in. (24.8 x 1248.1 cm). Date: datable to 1560.In 353, the renowned calligrapher Wang Xizhi (307-365) and his friends met at the Orchid Pavilion (at Shanyin, in modern Zhejiang Province) to celebrate the spring festival of purification. Sitting by a stream, they held a poetry competition. When the time was up, eleven men had finished two poems, and fifteen had finished one; the sixteen who failed to come up with anything (among them, Wang's son Xianzhi) were penalized by having to drink three additional cups of wine. In Qian Gu's representation of this famous literary event, cups of wine float downstream as the poets, lined up on both sides, drink freely and struggle to complete their poems.Orphaned at an early age, Qian Gu did not receive a formal education until adulthood, when he became a pupil of

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Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion. Artist: Qian Gu (Chinese, 1508-ca. 1578). Culture: China. Dimensions: Image: 9 1/2 x 171 1/2 in. (24.1 x 435.6 cm)Overall with mounting: 9 3/4 x 491 3/8 in. (24.8 x 1248.1 cm). Date: datable to 1560.In 353, the renowned calligrapher Wang Xizhi (307-365) and his friends met at the Orchid Pavilion (at Shanyin, in modern Zhejiang Province) to celebrate the spring festival of purification. Sitting by a stream, they held a poetry competition. When the time was up, eleven men had finished two poems, and fifteen had finished one; the sixteen who failed to come up with anything (among them, Wang's son Xianzhi) were penalized by having to drink three additional cups of wine. In Qian Gu's representation of this famous literary event, cups of wine float downstream as the poets, lined up on both sides, drink freely and struggle to complete their poems.Orphaned at an early age, Qian Gu did not receive a formal education until adulthood, when he became a pupil of

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