Netsuke with ?metal disc showing a fat male figure holding onto the belt of a mythical monkey figure. Metal disc is inserted into an ivory disc [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/3/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Netsuke with ?metal disc showing a fat male figure holding onto the belt of a mythical monkey figure. Metal disc is inserted into an ivory disc [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 29/3/2005]
Geographical reference: Japan
Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan
Cultural groups: Japanese
Person: Field collector William Leonard Stevenson Loat; PRM source William Leonard Stevenson Loat
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932
Date collected: By 1932
Acquisition information: Bequeathed: 07/1932 Donated: 07/1932
Materials and processes: Material Metal, Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved, Process Inlaid
Dimensions: Diameter: max 50 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.32.74 Other numbers: 74 9280 3280
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from Mrs. E. Loat, dated 11 July 1932: 'My Husband W. Leonard S. Loat ... has left your Museum some Netsuke, do you want them, if so I shall have great pleasure in sending them,...'
Envelope, labelled: 'JAPAN Labels from netsukés & buttons W.L.S. Loat coll. 1932.' Containing:
Old Pitt Rivers Museum label - 'Toggle buttons, netsuké, shewing carefully studied treatment of figures characteristic of decorative art of JAPAN. dd Mrs. B-Batty [?sic]
8 Pre-PRM labels, some with the date 1920 written on their reverse. [MOB 3/12/2001]