ID: 700000314 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000314	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Cape (cape (outerwear); unknown French; second half 16th century; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 06.941)

Note: This mantle, made with a sixteenth-century Ming Dynasty velvet, is purely European in form. The gold thread is typically Chinese in style: gilded paper wound on a core of orange silk.

Titles:

Cape (preferred,C,U,D,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

cape (outerwear) [300046140] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Costume (hierarchy name), costume (mode of fashion), clothing, outerwear)

Classifications:

costume / clothing (preferred)

Creation Date: second half 16th century

Creator Display:

unknown French [preferred,VP]

clothing manufacturer unknown French (French cultural designation) [500125235]

Locations:

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

Repository Numbers: 06.941

Credit Line: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906

Address Note: Not on view

Display Materials: silk, gilt thread

	silk (textile) [300243428]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by composition or origin>)

	thread [300014250]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by form>)

Dimensions: 81.3 cm (32 in.)

Cultures:

European (preferred)

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred,isness)

costume (isness)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

Sources and Contributors:
Cape	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 30 April 2012

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

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