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Rain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai
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About this work
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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineRain-coming Pavilion by the Stone Bridge at Mt. Tiantai (天台石梁, 雨來亭圖), 1848. Dai Xi (Chinese, 1801–1860). Handscroll, ink on paper; image: 34.5 x 142.6 cm (13 9/16 x 56 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 1979.54
