Jeff Olson
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Lot 1032
An armor with a silver dragon design Helmet and cuirass by Shigekatsu, Edo period (19th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$12,000 - US$18,000
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An armor with a silver dragon design
Helmet and cuirass by Shigekatsu, Edo period (19th century)
Laced in white with the components lacquered black and highlighted with gold lacquer finished in an ishime surface and comprising a thirty-two plate russet-iron suji kabuto, fitted with a simple six-lame Hineno shikoro, the bowl signed Mutsu kuni Shirakawa ju Shigekatsu and adorned with a long-horn oni maedate; the black lacquered Nara menpo applied with a boar-bristle mustache, the teeth silvered and fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a russet iron tatehagi nimai do decorated on the front with a dragon and flaming jewel in silver and gold nunomezogan and red lacquer, signed Mutsu Shirakawa ju Shigekatsu and fitted with six sections of four-lame kusazuri fastened to the cuirass with chain mail on fabric, the lowest lame trimmed in horse hair; chusode; kote with russet plates and chain mail; Etchu haidate; russet plate and chain mail suneate; with wood storage box and armor stand
With a Kicho Shiryo certificate issued by the Nihon katchu bugu kenkyu hozon kai (the society for the preservation of Japanese armor), dated 1972.5.28
Laced in white with the components lacquered black and highlighted with gold lacquer finished in an ishime surface and comprising a thirty-two plate russet-iron suji kabuto, fitted with a simple six-lame Hineno shikoro, the bowl signed Mutsu kuni Shirakawa ju Shigekatsu and adorned with a long-horn oni maedate; the black lacquered Nara menpo applied with a boar-bristle mustache, the teeth silvered and fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a russet iron tatehagi nimai do decorated on the front with a dragon and flaming jewel in silver and gold nunomezogan and red lacquer, signed Mutsu Shirakawa ju Shigekatsu and fitted with six sections of four-lame kusazuri fastened to the cuirass with chain mail on fabric, the lowest lame trimmed in horse hair; chusode; kote with russet plates and chain mail; Etchu haidate; russet plate and chain mail suneate; with wood storage box and armor stand
With a Kicho Shiryo certificate issued by the Nihon katchu bugu kenkyu hozon kai (the society for the preservation of Japanese armor), dated 1972.5.28