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KAWARI KABUTO (CASQUE À FORME EXCENTRIQUE) Période Edo (1615-1868), XVIIe siècle image 1
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KAWARI KABUTO (CASQUE À FORME EXCENTRIQUE)
Période Edo (1615-1868), XVIIe siècle

15 October 2025, 14:00 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€8,000 - €12,000

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KAWARI KABUTO (CASQUE À FORME EXCENTRIQUE)

Période Edo (1615-1868), XVIIe siècle

A KAWARI KABUTO (ECCENTRICALLY SHAPED HELMET)
Edo period (1615-1868), 17th century
The zunari (head-shaped) bowl forged with a medial ridge and hammered up at the front with a crescent-shaped eyebrow, all covered in bronze-coloured lacquer finished in a rough texture in imitation of cast bronze, the mabizashi (peak) trimmed with rolled metal edging, the bowl fitted with a five-lame shikoro (neck guard) laced in blue and orange, terminating in small fukigaeshi (turnbacks) applied with gilt-metal mitsudomoe (triple-whorl) heraldic crests, the crown fitted with a lacquered wood frill in the form of an onigawara (decorative roof tile) lacquered with a constellation of stars in gold hiramaki-e; with a wood stand
33cm high

Footnotes

Published
Nishimura Museum, Ihyō o tsuku Nihonbi no iki: Ransei no kawarikabuto ten (Japanese Art That Takes You by Surprise: Extraordinary Helmets from the Age of Battles), exhibition catalogue, Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 1986, cat. no. 49

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