Netsuke toggle of ivory, in form of a screen on either side of which stand figures with children. One figure of a God holds a hammer on which a rat is perched.

Collection type: Object
Description: Netsuke toggle of ivory, in form of a screen on either side of which stand figures with children. One figure of a God holds a hammer on which a rat is perched.
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector Charles Holme; PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther; PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
Date / Period: Date made: Before 27/09/1923
Date collected: By 27 September 1923
Acquisition information: Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Perforated
Dimensions: Width: max 30 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1980.34.618
Research and responses: There is one entry [1954.8.28] Beasley Collection which is from a Charles Home via Glendinings in 1923, it is probable that this is the same collector tho the provenance of the object is different [AP 30/8/2002]

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