Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)
4. Visual Works (hierarchy name)
5. visual works (works)
6. [visual works by material or technique]
7. metalwork (visual works)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Object Genres
4. object genres
5. ware

Anotations

Scope note:

Utilitarian and decorative objects made of tinplate and, more rarely, of pure tin. The earliest recorded objects of pure tin appear were found in Egypt, dating to the 18th dynasty (1567-1320 BCE). The process of plating sheets of iron and steel with tin was perfected in the early 18th century.