- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Netsuke toggle, globular, carved [.1], with removeable round piece [.2] [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Unknown Collector
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1700-1900?, uncertain
- Date collected
- By 1921
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 28 mm, Length: max 13 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.366.1 Accession number: 1980.34.366.2 Other numbers: 361
- Research and responses
Note that it is possible that this piece was collected by Tomkinson himself, as according to his obituary in the Kidderminster Times (see Gunther II 142), he did once travel to Japan. [SHD 30/7/2001]
1980.34.366.1
Netsuke toggle, globular, carved [.1], with removeable round piece [.2] [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 11/4/2005]
On display
1980.34.366.1
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