Miniature furniture and figurines from the Tomb of Pan Yongcheng, 16th–17th centuries (Ming dynasty), local beech wood and metal, excavated in Shanghai in 1960 (Shanghai Museum)
Additional resources
The Ming dynasty on Smarthistory
Ming dynasty on The Met’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Craig Clunas, Empire of Great Brightness: Visual and Material Culture of Ming China, 1368–1644 (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007).