- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Netsuke ashtray, square, carved of wood with central 'pin' of bone or ivory. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1917
- Date collected
- By 1917
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Pigment, Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Bone, Process Stained, Process Perforated, Process Decorated, Process Burnt
- Dimensions
- Width: max 35 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.63
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