Jeff Olson
Director
Lot 1040
A black lacquer armor Edo period (19th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$11,875 inc. premium
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A black lacquer armor
Edo period (19th century)
Laced in orange and navy blue with white highlights and comprising a russet-iron thirty-two plate hoshi kabuto with silver fittings carved with chrysanthemum scroll, the bowl fitted with a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi applied with silk brocade and gilt-copper paulownia heraldic crests, the lacquered wood maedate a dragon fish, the menpo applied with boar bristle mustache and chin tuft and fitted with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a ni mai do of kiritsukane laced in kebiki odoshi and applied with gilt-copper paulownia crests, with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chusode, russet iron odagote; russet iron kawara haidate, shino suneate; one wood storage box and armor stand
Laced in orange and navy blue with white highlights and comprising a russet-iron thirty-two plate hoshi kabuto with silver fittings carved with chrysanthemum scroll, the bowl fitted with a five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi applied with silk brocade and gilt-copper paulownia heraldic crests, the lacquered wood maedate a dragon fish, the menpo applied with boar bristle mustache and chin tuft and fitted with a four-lame yodarekake, the cuirass a ni mai do of kiritsukane laced in kebiki odoshi and applied with gilt-copper paulownia crests, with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri; chusode, russet iron odagote; russet iron kawara haidate, shino suneate; one wood storage box and armor stand