- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Netsuke toggle carved of ivory of a serving man seated with his left leg uncovered and hairy. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 5/4/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Maker Masatomo
- Field collector Henry Seymour Trower
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1922
- Date collected
- By 1922
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Process Perforated, Process Carved, Process Stained, Process Clamped, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 39 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.399 Other numbers: 1333, 4216
Search terms: Ornament, Clothing, Figure, Writing, Medicine, Toggle, Inscription
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