Jeff Olson
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Lot 1045
A gold lacquer armor with an o-yoroi do The helmet by Sugawara Saku, Meiji period (late 19th century)
8 October 2013, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$27,500 inc. premium
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A gold lacquer armor with an o-yoroi do
The helmet by Sugawara Saku, Meiji period (late 19th century)
The armor constructed of honkozane lacquered bright gold and laced in orange and green, white and purple omodaka odoshi style, the component parts decorated with elaborate stenciled doe skin and gilt-copper chrysanthemum scroll hardware; the helmet, a russet-iron twelve-plate o-boshi kabuto dressed in gilt-copper karajiho and shinodare running down from a large gilt-copper two-stage tehen kanamono, embellished with three gilt-copper Hosokawa family crests on the sides and the back, the bowl signed on a gilt-copper plate on the back exterior Arimoto Izumi (no) kami Sugawara Saku and kao, fitted with a wide five-lame o-manju shikoro with broad Heian-style fukigaeshi with silk cord highlights and applied with gilt-copper Hosokawa crests, the mabizashi similarly decorated and applied with a bold gilt-copper shishi kuwagatadai supporting long classical kuwagata and a silver and gilt circular maedate of the Hosokawa family crest; the russet iron menpo forged with a detachable nose and standing flanges on the cheeks, visible yasuri on the surface and with a three-lame yodarekake attached with a stenciled doe skin fastener; the cuirass an o-yoroi style do open at the right side and with a waidate plate, four broad sections of five-lame kusazuri separated at the front and back in typical yoroi style; kyubi no ita; osode; namazugote with shakudo and gilt-copper plates, applied with gilt-copper hardware carved with chrysanthemum scroll and a butterfly, the chain mail lacquered black, haidate separated at the lower lames, russet-iron tsubo suneate applied with gilt-copper Hosokawa crests, boars hair boots; iron gunsen and black and gold lacquer saihai; a red lacquer yoroibitsu storage box inscribed on the outside Arimoto Izumi (no) kami Sugawara Saku; with armor stand
The armor constructed of honkozane lacquered bright gold and laced in orange and green, white and purple omodaka odoshi style, the component parts decorated with elaborate stenciled doe skin and gilt-copper chrysanthemum scroll hardware; the helmet, a russet-iron twelve-plate o-boshi kabuto dressed in gilt-copper karajiho and shinodare running down from a large gilt-copper two-stage tehen kanamono, embellished with three gilt-copper Hosokawa family crests on the sides and the back, the bowl signed on a gilt-copper plate on the back exterior Arimoto Izumi (no) kami Sugawara Saku and kao, fitted with a wide five-lame o-manju shikoro with broad Heian-style fukigaeshi with silk cord highlights and applied with gilt-copper Hosokawa crests, the mabizashi similarly decorated and applied with a bold gilt-copper shishi kuwagatadai supporting long classical kuwagata and a silver and gilt circular maedate of the Hosokawa family crest; the russet iron menpo forged with a detachable nose and standing flanges on the cheeks, visible yasuri on the surface and with a three-lame yodarekake attached with a stenciled doe skin fastener; the cuirass an o-yoroi style do open at the right side and with a waidate plate, four broad sections of five-lame kusazuri separated at the front and back in typical yoroi style; kyubi no ita; osode; namazugote with shakudo and gilt-copper plates, applied with gilt-copper hardware carved with chrysanthemum scroll and a butterfly, the chain mail lacquered black, haidate separated at the lower lames, russet-iron tsubo suneate applied with gilt-copper Hosokawa crests, boars hair boots; iron gunsen and black and gold lacquer saihai; a red lacquer yoroibitsu storage box inscribed on the outside Arimoto Izumi (no) kami Sugawara Saku; with armor stand