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ID: 300417704
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300417704

 

Record Type: concept
mingqi (<visual works by function>, visual works (works), ... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name))

 

Note: In Chinese culture, certain objects placed in tombs for the use of the deceased or as the vessels for spirits. Included are figurines of people and animals, buildings and tools, and replicas of objects in life made of precious materials, such as jewels.
 
Terms:
mingqi (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,B)
ming-chi'i (C,U,English,UF,U,B)

Facet/Hierarchy Code:  V.VC

Hierarchical Position:

Hierarchy of Objects Facet
Objects Facet
Hierarchy of Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
.... Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of Visual Works (hierarchy name)
........ Visual Works (hierarchy name) (G)
Hierarchy of visual works (works)
............ visual works (works) (G)
Hierarchy of <visual works by function>
................ <visual works by function> (G)
Hierarchy of mingqi
.................... mingqi (G)

Related concepts:
used/function as ....  grave goods
..............................  (Kontext oder Herkunft Objektgattung nach Ort, object genres (object classifications), Object Genres (hierarchy name)) [300180706]
used/function as ....  spirit objects
..............................  (ceremonial objects, <object genres by function>, ... Object Genres (hierarchy name)) [300417703]

Sources and Contributors:
ming-chi'i............  [VP]
.......................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
.......................  Thorp and Bower, Spirit and Ritual: Ancient Chinese Art (1982)
mingqi............  [VP Preferred]
.................  Loewe and Shaughnessy, Cambridge History of Ancient China (1999)
.................  Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
.................  Personal Communication, Julia Grimes, Getty Research Institute (2014)
 
Subject: .....  [VP]
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... Loewe and Shaughnessy, Cambridge History of Ancient China (1999)
.......... Thorp and Bower, Spirit and Ritual: Ancient Chinese Art (1982)

 

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