A suit of armor with a russet-iron mogami do
Edo period (18th century)
Laced in white and black with blue and orange highlights and comprising an eighteen-plate russet-iron sujji kabuto surmounted with three-stage tehen kanamono and fitted with a five-lame close-fitting shikoro ending in fukigaeshi trimmed in gilt-copper fukurin and applied with circular gilt-copper heraldic crests on a black-leather ground, the maedate a large gold-lacquer crescent moon; the russet-iron mask forged with deep wrinkles and a detachable bulbous nose plate and applied with a boar's bristle mustache and chin tuft, red-lacquer lips, fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a russet-iron go-mai okegawa mogami do fitted with six sections of five-lame kusazuri, the lowest lame decorated with flower heads floating on streams in yamimakie; chu-sode; shino gote; iyo haidate; shino suneate; no armor box, no armor stand
Laced in white and black with blue and orange highlights and comprising an eighteen-plate russet-iron sujji kabuto surmounted with three-stage tehen kanamono and fitted with a five-lame close-fitting shikoro ending in fukigaeshi trimmed in gilt-copper fukurin and applied with circular gilt-copper heraldic crests on a black-leather ground, the maedate a large gold-lacquer crescent moon; the russet-iron mask forged with deep wrinkles and a detachable bulbous nose plate and applied with a boar's bristle mustache and chin tuft, red-lacquer lips, fitted with a three-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a russet-iron go-mai okegawa mogami do fitted with six sections of five-lame kusazuri, the lowest lame decorated with flower heads floating on streams in yamimakie; chu-sode; shino gote; iyo haidate; shino suneate; no armor box, no armor stand
Estimate:
US$ 25,000 - 35,000
£16,000 - 23,000
€19,000 - 27,000
£16,000 - 23,000
€19,000 - 27,000
Category: Asian Art / Japanese Art
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