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Edo period, 17th - 18th century, with later additions
A black lacquered iron helmet from the 17th-18th century Edo period with later additions, featuring a cloth cap apex and four-tiered neck guard with pale green braid lacing. The piece includes a fierce-expression face mask with yak hair moustache, detachable nose plate, and various later decorative elements such as gold and black forecrest and red lateral crests.
- Medium
- the black lacquered iron bowl applied to the apex with harikake in the form of a cloth cap (sozukin), the black lacquer peak with hammered brow, black lacquer turnbacks, four-tiered black lacquered neck guard with solid plates (itamono-jikoro) with spaced lacing (sugake odoshi) in pale green braid, later circular gold and black lacquer forecrest (maedate) applied with a wild boar, later red lacquered lateral crests (wakidate) applied with horse hair, the later rear crests (ushirodate) in the form of slender iris leaves (barin), lacquered simulated russet iron (sabiji-nuri) face mask with fierce expression (ressei mempo), flared nostrils and open mouth, detachable nose plate, yak hair moustache, red lacquer interior, four-tiered solid plate throat protector laced in matching braid, accompanied with a plain wood stand as illustrated
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
The Charlier and Cortina Collection of Exotic Samurai Helmets and Armour
September 21, 2022
Estimate: $25,000 – $30,000
Lot 7
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