- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory netsuke toggle representing a figure wearing a fox mask and holding an open fan in the right hand and a closed fan in the left. [N.B. 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 17/5/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Person
- Field collector Henry Solomon Wellcome
- PRM source Hermann Arthur Gunther
- PRM source Albert Everard Gunther
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1938
- Date collected
- By 1938
- Acquisition information
- Loaned: 1944 Donated: 1980
- Materials and processes
- Material Walrus Ivory Tooth Animal, Process Carved, Process Perforated
- Dimensions
- Height: max 45 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1980.34.2517
Search terms: Music, Figure, Mask, Clothing, Ornament, Musical Instrument, Toggle
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