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The helmet signed Masuda Myochin Minbu Ki no Munesada saku (made by Masuda Myochin Minbu Ki no Munesada) | Edo period, the helmet dated Horyaku mizunoe uma nigatsu kichijitsu (an auspicious day in the 2nd month 1762) | The armour Edo period, 19th century
A signed Edo period kabuto helmet made by master craftsman Masuda Myochin Minbu Ki no Munesada in 1762, featuring an eighteen-plate russet iron bowl with copper-gilt ornamental details and a distinctive shachihoko forecrest. The ensemble includes a four-tiered black-lacquer neck guard and is accompanied by 19th-century armor components.
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- Kabuto [helmet]: the eighteen plate russet iron bowl with large standing rivets (oboshi), terminating in a five-stage copper-gilt tehen kanamono in the form of a stylised lotus flower, the details finely chased and engraved, copper-gilt ornamental strips (shinodare), stenciled Dutch leather peak, the turnbacks similarly decorated and applied with copper-gilt Inaba family crests (mon), copper-gilt ornamental border (fukurin), four-tiered black-lacquer neck guard (shikoro) with close-spaced lacing (kebiki odoshi) in pale green braid, applied with dyed horse hair, gilt-wood forecrest (maedate) in the form of a shachihoko, black and red lacquer details, crystal ball to mouth, gilt metal stylised horns (kuwagata)
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby's
🔨 Auction Lot
The Charlier and Cortina Collection of Exotic Samurai Helmets and Armour
September 21, 2022
Estimate: $80,000 – $100,000
Lot 15
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