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96/60/4 Netsuke, Japanese toggle, 'Gama Sennin sleeping with a toad', boxwood, maker unknown, Japan, 18th century.
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Object statement
Netsuke, Japanese toggle, 'Gama Sennin sleeping with a toad', boxwood, maker unknown, Japan, 18th century.
Production Notes include information about the design, manufacture and marketing of an object. Production notes
attribution made by valuer Lynette Cunnington in 1995
History Notes include facts about what has happened to an object since manufacture. This could include who owned it and how it was used (provenance). It may also describe any cultural meanings with which it may have become associated. History notes
The object was part of a collection owned by the donors Alastair and Hedda Morrison.

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Description
Netsuke, Japanese toggle, 'Gama Sennin sleeping with a toad', boxwood, maker unknown, Japan, 18th century.

Hand carved boxwood figure. Depicts an old man with beard and robes, sleeping standing on one foot with toad perched on shoulder and holding staff. Gama Sennin is one of the immortals in Japanese mythology.

Designed: Japan; 1700 - 1799


Owned: Morrison, Alastair;

Owned: Morrison, Hedda;
Marks
small adhesive label inside fold of robe, inscription, hand written, black ink, "293"
The Registration Number of an object is a unique identifying number applied by the museum at the point of acquisition. Current numbering format comprises the year of acquisition, followed by a sequential number. For example, '2007/45' is the Registration Number that represents the 45th acquisition in the year 2007. Registration number
96/60/4
Production date
1700 - 1799
Height
20 mm
Width
30 mm

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Acquisition credit line
Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Alastair Morrison, 1996
Subjects
+ Toads
+ Japanese mythology
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