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The helmet signed Munetsugu saku (made by Munetsugu) | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
A signed Edo period helmet by master craftsman Munetsugu from the 17th-18th century, featuring an impressive sixty-two-plate russet iron bowl with Dutch-style embossed leather on large turnbacks and shakudo crests. The piece includes a fierce-expression face mask with horse hair moustache and silver lacquer teeth.
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- the sixty-two-plate russet iron bowl of goshozan form with small standing rivets, terminating in a copper and copper-gilt five-stage tehen kanamono of typical chrysanthemum form, russet iron peak, the large turnbacks with Dutch style embossed leather depicting scrolling foliage and applied with shakudo Nine Luminaries crests (kuyo mon), possibly later, black lacquered slightly rounded neck guard (ko-manju jikoro) with close-spaced lacing in blue braid and stenciled leather edging, the russet iron face mask with fierce expression (ressei mempo) with slightly wrinkled face and open mouth, detachable nose plate, standing flanges (yadome) to the cheeks, horse hair moustache, silver lacquer teeth, red lacquer interior, four-tiered throat protector with close-spaced lacing in blue braid, accompanied with a plain wood stand as illustrated
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- 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 3
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