A SUJIBACHI KABUTO (RIDGED HELMET) AND A MENPO

Lot 120
20.09.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 9 450
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Lot 120 | A SUJIBACHI KABUTO (RIDGED HELMET) AND A MENPO
Valeur estimée
$ 8 000 – 12 000
A SUJIBACHI KABUTO (RIDGED HELMET) AND A MENPO

EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY), SIGNED MUNETOSHI SAKU

Helmet [kabuto]:

The sixteen-plate russet-iron bowl of crisp well finished iron, each plate overlaid with simple iron bajo-shinodare (spatulate plates), the black-lacquered peak secured to the bowl by three simple gilded rivets and with applied iron clouds, mounted with a seven-tier mixed metal tehen-kanamono (finial), the peak and fukigaeshi (turnbacks to the neck-guard) covered with gilded leather and bearing an applied mon (crest)



Neck guard [shikoro]:

The black lacquered itamono ichimanju-jikoro (solid-plate neck guard) with a lower plate textured black and gold and laced in white yosekake style (spaced lacing in groups)



Face mask [menpo]:

The russet-iron ryubu-style mask, the cheeks and chin embossed with wrinkles and a scrolling design, the detachable nose with hinges on both sides, well shaped otayori-no-kugi (pegs beneath the chin), hair moustache and chin tuft, the four-lame black-lacquered itamono yodarekake (solid-plate bibs) laced with mid-blue sugake-odoshi (spaced lacing)





Provenance

Christie's London, 15 November 2000, lot 169



Literature

L'art Guerrier au Japon, Samourai (Paris, 1987), p. 79, no. 46; Kei Kaneda, Japanese Armour Makers of the Samurai (Chappelear, 1987), p. 237, pl. 168



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