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1980.34.213

Netsuke toggle showing The Hundred Poems [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/4/2005]

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1980.34.213

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Collection type
Object
Description
Netsuke toggle showing The Hundred Poems [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/4/2005]
Geographical reference
Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups
Japanese
Person
Maker Gyokushinsai
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 Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Perforated, Process Inscribed
Dimensions
Width: max 38 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1980.34.213
Associated publications
Please note that the following offprint was found in one of the drawers containing card games. It is unclear what, if any, object this was originally associated with, so I have put it in a folder in the RDF in 1917.53 which is the collection that most of the card games were from. King Van Rensselaer, J. "Playing Cards from Japan" Proceedings National Museum XIII, No. 836, p. 381 - 382 [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/2/2005]

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