IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 20972 accession number: C.593-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lokopala (tomb guardian) on rocky base. Buff earthenware, moulded, white slipped, partially lead-glazed in brown, yellow and green, with cold painted details in black and red. The figure is standing with its left hand raised and right fist clenched. The dress to the upper arm resembles a dragon's head. Cold painted details in black have been applied to the facial features including eyes, nose and beard. The hands, head and part of the armour remain unglazed, with cold painted decoration, and the central armour panel has over-glaze decoration. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Abbey, 5th October 1923, by Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950) for £17.12s.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/20972 PEOPLE ------------------- guardian TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, covered with white slip, partially lead-glazed in brown, yellow and green, with cold paint details in black and red moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 700 - 800 creation date earliest: 700 creation date latest: 800 culture: Tang Dynasty (618-907) culture: 8th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 106.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 45 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- Images from the Tomb: Chinese Burial Figurines ---