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23. 23W COMPOSITE HELMET IN NATURAL IRON AND BROWN LACQUER
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23. 23W COMPOSITE HELMET IN NATURAL IRON AND BROWN LACQUER
See original version (French)
Estimate €7,000 - €10,000
Voluntary lot
Description
23. 23W COMPOSITE HELMET IN NATURAL IRON AND BROWN LACQUER
Japan, Edo period (1615–1868), 19th century
Laced in blue with orange highlights, comprising:
a 22-plate russet-iron suji bachi kabuto, signed on the inside ‘Nippon yuichi kachu ryoko / Masuda Myochin ki Muneichi (or Munekazu) tsukuru 日本唯一甲冑良工 / 增田明珍紀宗一作之 (Made by Myochin ki Muneichi of the Masuda clan, Japan’s sole master armourer) ’, finished with a four-stage copper tehen kanamono, fitted with a crest-like kashira-date made of brown-lacquered wood and partially red-dyed horsehair, fitted with three sections of five-lame brown-lacquered shikoro, a black-lacquered fukigaeshi featuring gold-lacquered floral family crests, the mabisashi adorned with a riveted metal plaque (with three large rivets) applied with finely brown-lacquered same decorated with a dragon pattern and bordered with a lacquered fukurin;
the russet-iron ressei menpō with a boar-bristle moustache and gold-lacquered teeth (red-lacquered on the inside), with a two-lame black-lacquered yodarekake;
the russet-iron and brown-lacquered go-mai dō, incised on the front with the same inscription as the kabuto, fitted with five sections of five-lame brown-lacquered kusazuri;
a five-lame chū-sode, Oda gote, and a brown-lacquered kawara haidate, with a wooden storage box.
190 cm (74 3/4 in.) high; kabuto 44 cm (17 1/4 in.); menpō 17.3 cm (6 3/4 in.) (2).
To be sold without reserve
See original version (French)
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About the sale
Asian Decorative Art, including Japanese Weapons and Armour, from a European Collection
Auction location
Auction time
10/23/2026 at 12:00 PM
Pictures credits: Contact the Auction House
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