IDENTIFIERS
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id:	20939
accession number:	C.730 & A & B-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 5 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); 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/20939

PEOPLE
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figures

SUBJECTS
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dog of Fo
bird
tomb
dog of Fo
bird
tomb



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware brick in low relief with flowing linear decoration
bas-relief

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	207 - 589
creation date earliest:	207
creation date latest:	589
culture:	Han Dynasty (BC 206 - AD 220)
culture:	Six Dynasties

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown