Jeff Olson
Director
Lot 1036
A black lacquer armor with a kawari kabuto The helmet Momoyama period (16th/17th century), the armor Edo period (18th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkUS$18,000 - US$25,000
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A black lacquer armor with a kawari kabuto
The helmet Momoyama period (16th/17th century), the armor Edo period (18th century)
The helmet a three-plate iron bowl built up on the top with a lacquer and paper superstructure resembling a cresting wave, fitted with a five-lame Hineno shikoro, a Nara menpo with a stiff boar bristle mustache and chin tuft with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a nimai nuinobe do, the lower half kiritsuke kozane in dangae style fitted with six sections of five-lame kusazuri, chusode, shinogote, kawara haidate with gold lacquer bovine horns and shino suneate, the armor laced entirely in navy blue with orange and white highlights, no armor box, no armor stand
The helmet a three-plate iron bowl built up on the top with a lacquer and paper superstructure resembling a cresting wave, fitted with a five-lame Hineno shikoro, a Nara menpo with a stiff boar bristle mustache and chin tuft with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a nimai nuinobe do, the lower half kiritsuke kozane in dangae style fitted with six sections of five-lame kusazuri, chusode, shinogote, kawara haidate with gold lacquer bovine horns and shino suneate, the armor laced entirely in navy blue with orange and white highlights, no armor box, no armor stand