A GOLD-LACQUER SUIT OF ARMOR
Edo period (18th century)
The suit constructed of honkozane and laced in blue and red keibiki odoshi and comprising an iron sixty-two plate koboshi kabuto, mounted with a five-stage gilt copper tehen kanamono, the mabisashi lacquered gold and mounted with a lacquered wood rabbit maedate, the bowl fitted with a five-lame Hineno-style shikoro, the fukigaeshi applied with stenciled doe skin and gilt copper circular heraldic plum blossom crests; russet-lacquer face mask applied with boar-bristle mustache and chin tuft and fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the cuirass, a hatomune do with seven sets of five-lame kusazari and rectangular gyoyo, with pierce carved gilt-metal hardware; chusode; oda gote with hinged compartments on the gourd plates; haidate of honkozane; no suneate; one wood storage box
The suit constructed of honkozane and laced in blue and red keibiki odoshi and comprising an iron sixty-two plate koboshi kabuto, mounted with a five-stage gilt copper tehen kanamono, the mabisashi lacquered gold and mounted with a lacquered wood rabbit maedate, the bowl fitted with a five-lame Hineno-style shikoro, the fukigaeshi applied with stenciled doe skin and gilt copper circular heraldic plum blossom crests; russet-lacquer face mask applied with boar-bristle mustache and chin tuft and fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the cuirass, a hatomune do with seven sets of five-lame kusazari and rectangular gyoyo, with pierce carved gilt-metal hardware; chusode; oda gote with hinged compartments on the gourd plates; haidate of honkozane; no suneate; one wood storage box
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US$ 23,180
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Category: Asian Art
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