ID: 700000200 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000200	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Box with Long-tailed Birds and Peonies (box (container); Unknown Ming; 2nd half of 16th century; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 91.1.638 )

Note: On the side of the cover are abstract, rocklike forms. They provide a groundline, often seen in sixteenth-century lacquer works, for the auspicious peonies and long-tailed birds on the cover.

Titles:

Box with Long-tailed Birds and Peonies (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

明晚期 剔紅綬帶牡丹紋漆盒 (C,U,Chinese-P,U,U)

Box with Birds and Flowers (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

box (container) [300045643] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>)

red lacquerware [300410509]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, lacquerware)

Classifications:

Asian art (preferred)

Creation Date: 2nd half of 16th century

Creator Display:

Unknown Ming [preferred,VP]

creator unknown Ming (Ming cultural designation) [500203829]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 91.1.638

Credit Line: Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891

Address Note: On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 221

Other: Creation: Chung-hua Min-kuo [1000141] (Geographic)

Display Materials: carved red lacquer

	carving (processes) [300053149]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <subtractive processes and techniques>, <carving and carving techniques>)

	red lacquer [300410508]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by composition or origin>, lacquer (material), urushi)

Dimensions: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 inches) (height); 10.8 cm (4 1/4 inches) (diameter)

Cultures:

Ming (preferred)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

animals

botanical

Specific Subjects:

	bird (animal) [300266506]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum)) (AAT)

	peonies [300380052]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Magnoliopsida (class), Saxifragales (order), Paeoniaceae (family)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Box with Long-tailed Birds and Peonies	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
明晚期 剔紅綬帶牡丹紋漆盒	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)
Box with Birds and Flowers	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 1 December 2011

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 1 December 2011

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)