IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 20963 accession number: C.590-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark-grey earthenware, moulded. Relief moulded, lozenge-shaped tile, with a demon wrestling with a serpent, whose finely scaled body is entwined round the demon, whose hands grasp its head and part of the body. The serpent with wide open mouth and tongue bites the demon's stomach. From the Pagoda at Xinding Temple near Anyang. title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Pagoda at Xinding Temple near Anyang. Purchased from Eastwood & Holt, October 1923 by Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d.1950) for £8.8s.0d.; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: H.S. Reitlinger creditline: Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/20963 PEOPLE ------------------- demon SUBJECTS ------------------- serpent wrestling serpent wrestling TECHNIQUES ---------- dark grey earthenware, moulded in relief moulding in relief CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 618 - 907 creation date earliest: 618 creation date latest: 907 culture: Tang Dynasty (618-907) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 62 dimension: Width units: cm value: 42.5