- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory netsuke of Chinese temple [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/3/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector James Bellhouse Gaskell
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 17/06/1926
- Date collected
- By 17 June 1926
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 40 mm, Height: max 38 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.1844 Other numbers: Gaskell collection no. 1332 Other numbers: Streatfeild collection no. 664 Other numbers: Gordon Smith no. 562
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