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Edo period, 18th century
An 18th century Edo period kabuto featuring a fine black lacquered sixteen-plate iron bowl with elaborate copper-gilt decorative work. The helmet includes an ornamental strip, multi-stage tehen kanamono, ornamental borders, falcon feather crests in silver and copper-gilt, and close-fitted neck guard with dark blue lacing.
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- the fine black lacquered sixteen plate iron bowl with raised ridges and central shinodare [ornamental strip], terminating in a five-stage copper-gilt tehen kanamono, fitted with a copper so-fukurin [ornamental border] and igaki [small metal plates to the base] pierced with inome [boar's eye] openings, plain black lacquer mabisashi [peak], the fukigaeshi [turnbacks] similarly decorated and applied with silver and copper-gilt takanoha mon [falcon feather crests], four-tiered black lacquer itamono hineno-jikoro [solid plate close-fitted neck guard] with kebiki odoshi [close-spaced lacing] in dark blue braid, the copper-gilt maedate-dai [forecrest fixture] chased and engraved with scrolling foliage in European manner on a nanako ground
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour
May 3, 2023
Estimate: $10,000 – $15,000
Lot 20
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