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Auction archive: Lot number 3028

A BLACK, GOLD AND RED-LACQUER ARMOR WITH A KAWARI KABUTO

The Samurai Sale
22 Oct 2009
Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$30,500
Auction archive: Lot number 3028

A BLACK, GOLD AND RED-LACQUER ARMOR WITH A KAWARI KABUTO

The Samurai Sale
22 Oct 2009
Estimate
US$0
Price realised:
US$30,500
Beschreibung:

Edo period (17th-18th century) Laced in red and blue, comprising a kawari kabuto designed as a tall court cap (naga eboshi) with vertical striations and a slight "fold" at the back, fitted with a five-lame black-lacquer shikoro laced in kebiki style, the small fukigaeshi unadorned, the front mounted with a gold-lacquered wood bracken-fern maedate; the black-lacquer menpo with deep wrinkles, gold-lacquer teeth and red lips, applied with a boar-bristle mustache, the mask fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the yokohagi nimai do lacquered gold and black in a mottled pattern, the munaita with a hinge and decorated with gilt-metal family crests, the lower section of the curiass with kebiki-laced scales, fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazari; with chusode and red-lacquer chain mail gote with sparse ikada; kawara haidate; shino suneate; one armor box

Auction archive: Lot number 3028
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2009
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Edo period (17th-18th century) Laced in red and blue, comprising a kawari kabuto designed as a tall court cap (naga eboshi) with vertical striations and a slight "fold" at the back, fitted with a five-lame black-lacquer shikoro laced in kebiki style, the small fukigaeshi unadorned, the front mounted with a gold-lacquered wood bracken-fern maedate; the black-lacquer menpo with deep wrinkles, gold-lacquer teeth and red lips, applied with a boar-bristle mustache, the mask fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the yokohagi nimai do lacquered gold and black in a mottled pattern, the munaita with a hinge and decorated with gilt-metal family crests, the lower section of the curiass with kebiki-laced scales, fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazari; with chusode and red-lacquer chain mail gote with sparse ikada; kawara haidate; shino suneate; one armor box

Auction archive: Lot number 3028
Auction:
Datum:
22 Oct 2009
Auction house:
Bonhams London
New York 580 Madison Avenue New York NY 10022 Tel: +1 212 644 9001 Fax : +1 212 644 9009 info.us@bonhams.com
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