Description
The subject is not just Mount Tiantai in Zhejiang Province, the ancient seat of the most powerful Buddhist sect of Sui and Tang dynasties, but records a specific occasion in 1838 when an official visited Tiantai and began the reconstruction of a historic pavilion. As this coincided with the end of a long drought, the building was auspiciously renamed the Yulai (Rain-Coming 雨來) Pavilion. Ten years later, Dai Xi painted this handscroll to commemorate the occasion.
Provenance
Wan-go H. C. Weng 翁萬戈 [1918–2020], Lyme, NH, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art (?–1979); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (1979–)
Accession Number
1979.54
Medium
handscroll, ink on paper
Dimensions
Image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
