Five groups of figures are nestled in the tree-lined garden on this screen, which would have been displayed in a scholar’s studio. The scene recalls a famous literary gathering held in the Western Garden in 1087. The figure writing on a cliff, at right, appears to be the legendary scholar-official Mi Fu (1051–1107).
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清乾隆 象牙雕西園雅集座屏
Title:Table screen with the gathering in the Western Garden
Period:Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–95)
Date:18th century
Culture:China
Medium:Ivory
Dimensions:H. 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm); W. 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm); D. 1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm)
Classification:Ivories
Credit Line:Gift of Florence and Herbert Irving, 2015
Accession Number:2015.500.6.8
[ Donald J. Wineman , Sands Point, NY, until 1984; sold to Irving]; Florence and Herbert Irving , New York (1984–2015; donated to MMA)
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