DESCRIPTION: A Chinese boxwood toggle (Guajian) carved as a pair of men’s shoes resting side by side, a symbol of marital harmony and the wish for many sons. Nicely carved with relief banding and hollowed interior, the fine-grained boxwood has a wonderful, aged patina from years of use. A hole in the sole of each shoe was used for threading cords from which this toggle would have been suspended as a counterweight to some other object.