Dress toggle made in China

Chinese belt toggles called 'zhuizi' are small carved ornaments used as counterweights on the cords of pipe bags and other small bags which were usually hung on men's belts.

Chinese clothes were not well provided with pockets, so bags which could be suspended from a belt were useful articles of attire. In order to fulfil its primary purpose of securing things to a belt, a toggle must have what the Chinese called a 'string eye', which could pass a string or cord.

Toggle wearing disappeared …

Summary

Object No.

92/619

Object Statement

Dress accessory, toggle, circular disk, antler horn, China, c. 1700-1940

Physical Description

Dress accessory, toggle, circular disk, antler horn, China, c. 1700-1940

Flat, roughly circular horn disc (deer antler) with the rough natural surface only slightly polished. The outer rim is naturally notched and there are eight small holes for attachment.

Marks

No marks

Short URL

https://ma.as/127768

Dimensions

Height

56 mm

Width

60 mm

Depth

12 mm

Source

Credit Line

Gift of Alastair Morrison, 1992

Acquisition Date

21 June 1992

Cite this Object

Harvard

Dress toggle made in China 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 23 March 2023, <https://ma.as/127768>

Wikipedia

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