A russet-iron ko-boshi kabuto
By the Haruta family, 18th century
The sixty-two plate bowl constructed in a shallow, slightly forward-leaning profile and surmounted with a four-stage gilt-metal tehen kanamono carved with floral scroll, the four-lame shikoro lacquered black and laced in navy with white, green and orange highlights, the lowest lame slightly shorter than the rest and pierced at the corner with inoshishime, the fukigaeshi applied with stenciled doe skin and gilt-metal bamboo family crests and trimmed in gilt-copper fukurin, the mabizashi decorated to match and with sanko no byo, the interior of the bowl illegibly signed []ta Yoshi[]
