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HELMETS
Various Properties
Various Properties
Lot 248*
A shiinari kabuto (helmet) By Munehisa, late Edo Period, 19th century
7 November 2013, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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By Munehisa, late Edo Period, 19th century
The five-plate iron bowl lacquered smooth on the outside with a reddish-brown lacquer, the deep mabisashi similarly lacquered and secured to the bowl by three large gilt chrysanthemum-headed rivets, at the top a four-stage mixed-metal tehen kanamono, a three-lame iron itamono komanju jikoro black-lacquered and gilded on the inside, the lower plate covered with a stenciled leather, fukigaeshi black-lacquered with a yahazu ni maru mon, probably that of the Mori daimyo of Saiki in Bungo, laced in dark blue sugake odoshi, signed Munehisa saku.
The five-plate iron bowl lacquered smooth on the outside with a reddish-brown lacquer, the deep mabisashi similarly lacquered and secured to the bowl by three large gilt chrysanthemum-headed rivets, at the top a four-stage mixed-metal tehen kanamono, a three-lame iron itamono komanju jikoro black-lacquered and gilded on the inside, the lower plate covered with a stenciled leather, fukigaeshi black-lacquered with a yahazu ni maru mon, probably that of the Mori daimyo of Saiki in Bungo, laced in dark blue sugake odoshi, signed Munehisa saku.
























