Generations of Chinese intellectuals and Buddhist monks honed the practice of tea tasting into a high art form. The "bamboo stove" \u2014a carrying case that contained a ceramic kettle used for heating water\u2014was central to the process of tea preparation. This ingenious device, fanned by a servant in the center of this painting, was the subject of a poem by Wu Kuan (1435-1504), a close friend of Tang Yin. In this composition, Wu appears on a low platform with a teapot and a scroll by his side. He shared the tea ceremony with a Buddhist monk, while another servant draws fresh water from a nearby stream.<\/p>\n
Five years after Wu Kuan's death, Tang Yin executed this delicate vignette in the writer's memory. The first colophon was written by Zhu Yunming (1461-1527), a famous poet and calligrapher who exchanged tea-related verses with Mr. Wu. Such commemorative paintings provide poignant records of Chinese intellectual and cultured society.<\/p>\n","short_description":null,"dimensions":"23.4 \u00d7 332.8 cm (9 3\/16 \u00d7 131 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":332,"height":23,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Handscroll; ink and slight color on paper","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Kate S. Buckingham Endowment Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Pang Yuanji, Xuzhai minghua lu (1909), ch.4:5b-8b.\n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \u201cA Chinese Painting of the Ming Dynasty,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago, March, 1942.\n\nPaul L. Grigaut, E.P. Richardson, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty (The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1952), No. 25, p. 12. \n\nComprehensive Illustrated Catalog of Chinese Paintings: Vol. 1 American and Canadian Collections, compiled by Kei Suzuki , by University of Tokyo Press, 1982; page34,35, No. A 3\u2013013.\n\nAnne De Coursey Clapp, The Painting of Tang Yin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), fig. 22, pl. 2, pp. 55, 88-93.\n\nHigh Tea, Glorious Manifestations, East and west, by Laurie E. Barnes and Anne Bissonnette, Norton Museum of Art, page 134, C27","exhibition_history":"Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, February 19 \u2013 May 24, 2015.\n\nDetroit Institute of Arts, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1952","provenance_text":"Pang Yuanji (c. 1864-1949), Shanghai; Tonying & Company, New York.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":8,"fiscal_year":null,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":14.149,"color":{"h":38,"l":52,"s":11,"percentage":0.2579909119784273,"population":398},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":false,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":null,"gallery_id":null,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Arts of Asia","department_id":"PC-7","artist_id":36862,"artist_title":"Tang Yin","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[36862],"artist_titles":["Tang Yin"],"category_ids":["PC-7","PC-837"],"category_titles":["Arts of Asia","Arts of Asia 100"],"term_titles":["paper (fiber product)","painting","Chinese (culture or style)","ink","asian art"],"style_id":"TM-4303","style_title":"Chinese (culture or style)","alt_style_ids":[],"style_ids":["TM-4303"],"style_titles":["Chinese (culture or style)"],"classification_id":"TM-9","classification_title":"painting","alt_classification_ids":["TM-26"],"classification_ids":["TM-9","TM-26"],"classification_titles":["painting","asian art"],"subject_id":null,"alt_subject_ids":[],"subject_ids":[],"subject_titles":[],"material_id":"TM-2982","alt_material_ids":["TM-2398"],"material_ids":["TM-2982","TM-2398"],"material_titles":["paper (fiber product)","ink"],"technique_id":null,"alt_technique_ids":[],"technique_ids":[],"technique_titles":[],"theme_titles":["Arts of Asia 100"],"image_id":"b537efd5-9719-2f33-ff5d-89578177002b","alt_image_ids":[],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["1941.13"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Tea Drinking Under the Wutong Tree"],"weight":1096,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-08-10T09:53:49-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-10T13:08:47-05:00","timestamp":"2026-09-06T05:49:46-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. All other data in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) 1.0 designation and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu.","license_links":["https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/","https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/terms"],"version":"1.15"},"config":{"iiif_url":"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/iiif\/2","website_url":"http:\/\/www.artic.edu"}}