Jeff Olson
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Lot 1013
A kawari kabuto and menpo Edo period (18th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$9,375 inc. premium
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A kawari kabuto and menpo
Edo period (18th century)
The interior bowl an iron zunari kabuto decorated with a lacquer superstructure designed as a crashing wave and entirely lacquered reddish brown, the five-lame shikoro with small fukigaeshi, lacquered black, the lowest lame in gold and black mokume, laced in white sugake odoshi, a simple gilt-copper disk maedate pierced with a diamond; the red lacquer menpo forged with a separate nose plate and deep wrinkles on the cheeks and gilt teeth, and applied with a boar bristle mustache and chin tuft, four-lame yodarekake lacquered black
With Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Important Cultural Material) certificate no. 1475 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (The Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor), dated 2005.11.27.
The interior bowl an iron zunari kabuto decorated with a lacquer superstructure designed as a crashing wave and entirely lacquered reddish brown, the five-lame shikoro with small fukigaeshi, lacquered black, the lowest lame in gold and black mokume, laced in white sugake odoshi, a simple gilt-copper disk maedate pierced with a diamond; the red lacquer menpo forged with a separate nose plate and deep wrinkles on the cheeks and gilt teeth, and applied with a boar bristle mustache and chin tuft, four-lame yodarekake lacquered black
With Tokubetsu Kicho Shiryo (Important Cultural Material) certificate no. 1475 issued by the Nihon Katchu Bugu Kenkyu Hozon Kai (The Society for the Preservation of Japanese Armor), dated 2005.11.27.