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An impressive Myochin forty-four plate nihojiro suji kabuto By Myochin Ietsugu, active 1558-1591 image 1
An impressive Myochin forty-four plate nihojiro suji kabuto By Myochin Ietsugu, active 1558-1591 image 2
Arts of the Samurai
Lot 2258

An impressive Myochin forty-four plate nihojiro suji kabuto
By Myochin Ietsugu, active 1558-1591

20 March 2012, 13:00 EDT
New York

US$35,000 - US$40,000

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An impressive Myochin forty-four plate nihojiro suji kabuto

By Myochin Ietsugu, active 1558-1591
The iron helmet constructed in a classic Muromachi akoda profile and lacquered black, all ridges but two in the front and back of the helmet covered with a gilt-copper fukurin and igaki at the base, each pierced with inoshishime, the top of the bowl pierced with a tehen ana and decorated with a four-stage gilt-copper and shakudo chrysanthemum tehen kanamono, the mabizashi applied with stenciled doe skin, silk cord, chrysanthemum rivets and banded at the edge with a shakudo "rope" fukurin, the five-lame shikoro ending in fukigaeshi decorated with shakudo fukurin and doe skin similar to the mabizashi and applied with shakudo heraldic crests of blossoms on stylized waves, a gold-lacquer disc maedate and mounts for wakidate on the sides, signed on the interior on the bowl Soshu ju Ietsugu

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