IDENTIFIERS
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id:	20963
accession number:	C.590-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 5 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/20963

PEOPLE
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demon

SUBJECTS
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serpent
wrestling
serpent
wrestling



TECHNIQUES
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dark grey earthenware, moulded in relief
moulding in relief

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	618 - 907
creation date earliest:	618
creation date latest:	907
culture:	Tang Dynasty (618-907)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 62.0

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 42.5