- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Netsuke toggle of Shoki grasping an Oki. Carved of wood, with ivory head and hands [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 1/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector R. Gordon Smith
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1920
- Date collected
- By 1920
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Wood Plant, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Height: max 85 mm, Width: max 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.205 Other numbers: 522
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