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Meiji period, late 19th - early 20th century
A Meiji period kabuto featuring a black lacquered six-plate iron bowl with elaborate copper-gilt decorative elements including stylized chrysanthemum rivets. The helmet includes ornamental strips, Dutch leather components, neck guard with colored lacing, and gilt metal forecrest in the form of Hachiman daibosatsu characters.
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- The black lacquered six-plate iron bowl with raised ridges, applied with a shinodare [ornamental strip] to the central front plate with copper-gilt stylised chrysanthemum form rivets, terminating in a six-stage copper-gilt tehen kanamono floret, stenciled Dutch leather mabisashi [peak], large stenciled Dutch leather turnbacks applied with copper katabami mon [wood sorrel crests], black lacquered three-tiered ko manju-jikoro [slightly rounded neck guard] with spaced lacing in green and white braid, gilt metal maedate [forecrest] in the form of the characters Hachiman daibosatsu [Great Bodhisattva Hachiman], gilt metal kuwagata fitted on a pierced, chased and engraved kuwagata-dai
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- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour
May 3, 2023
Estimate: $20,000 – $25,000
Lot 36
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