5054687 Marshal Wang, 1542 (ink and color on silk) by Chinese School, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); length: 98.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Marshal Wang, one of the fierce guardian deities of Daoism, charged with protecting temples. Originally a human, posthumously deified, he rides a flaming wheel, vanquishing the evil serpent spirits in the river below. The gold inscription at upper right indicates this was commissioned by an imperial concubine at the court of the Ming emperor Jiajing, a generous patron of Daoism.).