XINJIANG PROVINCE

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TWELVE CHINESE BURR WOOD TOGGLES
XINJIANG PROVINCE
On modern stands
6 ¾ in. (17 cm.) diameter and smaller

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Lot Essay

Before the relatively modern invention of the pocket the necessities of the day would have been carried in a pouch; the toggle served to secure the pouch. A cord was threaded through a hole in the reverse of the toggle and passed behind a belt or sash worn around the waist. Suspended from the cord would be the pouch; the toggle ensured that the cord would not slip from behind the belt in the same way as a Japanese netsuke.

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