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The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour
The Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armour
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The Property of a Gentleman
A koboshi-bachi [helmet with small standing rivets] | Edo period, 17th - 18th century
Lot Closed
May 16, 12:19 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
A koboshi-bachi [helmet with small standing rivets]
Edo period, 17th - 18th century
the sixty-two plate iron bowl of tenkokuzan form with small standing rivets, terminating in a five-stage copper-gilt tehen kanamono of chrysanthemum form, red lacquered iron peak, small black lacquered turn backs, four-tiered black lacquered iron close-fitting solid plate neck guard (Hineno itamono-jikoro) with close-spaced lacing (kebiki odoshi) in orange braid, the red and gold lacquered maedate [forecrest] in the form of an oni, applied with yak hair, inlaid eyes, the reverse with red lacquer inscription, accompanied with a plain wood helmet stand, but not the one illustrated
The bowl to peak: 26 cm., 10¼ in.
Please note the lot is sold without the display stand illustrated.
The helmet bowl has been worked with 30 pointed rivets on each plate, gradually decreasing in size towards the apex of the bowl. With the exception of the wider frontal plate which bears a total of 90 rivets, and a slender plate to the reverse of the bowl which is not applied with rivets, the entire bowl comprises a remarkable 1,890 rivets.