IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 20939 accession number: C.730 & A & B-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tomb brick in ebonised display box. Rectangular grey earthenware brick in low relief with flowing linear decoration depicting two figures, one lying down resting on her elbow and holding a circular, the other beside a Buddhist tomb or shrine guarded by a dog of fo; a bird perches in the foreground. Enclosed in a backward slanting ebonised display box which unscrews into two pieces. title: tomb brick NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); 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/20939 PEOPLE ------------------- figures SUBJECTS ------------------- dog of Fo bird tomb dog of Fo bird tomb TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware brick in low relief with flowing linear decoration bas-relief CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 206 - 589 creation date earliest: 206 creation date latest: 589 culture: Han Dynasty (BC 206 - AD 220) culture: Six Dynasties CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown