ID: 700001282 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001282	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (pagoda (building); unknown Chinese architect; 15th century)

Titles:

Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Porcelain Pagoda of Nanjing (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

pagoda (building) [300004829] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings)

tower (single built work) [300004847]

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by form>, <single built works by form: massing or shape>)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: 15th century

Creator Display:

unknown Chinese architect [preferred,VP]

unknown Chinese (Chinese cultural designation) [500125222]

Locations:

Other: Destroyed: Nanjing [7001892] Jiangsu (province), China (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: porcelain

	porcelain (material) [300010662]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, clay, <clay by product>, <ceramic and ceramic by product>, ceramic (material))

Dimensions: 97 feet in diameter, 260 feet tall

Events:

destruction: 1856

Cultures:

Chinese (preferred)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: religious, ceremonial, and funerary structures

Sources and Contributors:
Porcelain Tower of Nanjing	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
	........ Sönmez, Defoe and the Dutch (2015) 222
Porcelain Pagoda of Nanjing	........ [VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]