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A warabe gusoku armour Late Edo Period, mid 19th century
10 November 2011, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,500 inc. premium
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A warabe gusoku armour
Late Edo Period, mid 19th century
Made for a very small boy, the helmet bowl of fourteen plates black-lacquered with an o-manju jikoro to the rear, fukigaeshi and mabisashi leather covered and mounted with a maedate of a gilded pigeon and a pair of natural stag antlers, a black-lacquered menpo with hair moustache. The tateage do black-lacquered with a coiled dragon in gold on the front, the muna ita separately laced, on the back a gattari and ukezutsu for a sashimono, chu sode, shino gote, karuta gane haidate, shino suneate and a pair of kutsu. Gold-lacquered overall and laced in red kebiki odoshi. Contained in an armour box with a stand. The interior of the box inscribed Masuda Miochin Ki Munesada Ansei Shi Hinoto Mi Nen Go Gatsu (1858).
Made for a very small boy, the helmet bowl of fourteen plates black-lacquered with an o-manju jikoro to the rear, fukigaeshi and mabisashi leather covered and mounted with a maedate of a gilded pigeon and a pair of natural stag antlers, a black-lacquered menpo with hair moustache. The tateage do black-lacquered with a coiled dragon in gold on the front, the muna ita separately laced, on the back a gattari and ukezutsu for a sashimono, chu sode, shino gote, karuta gane haidate, shino suneate and a pair of kutsu. Gold-lacquered overall and laced in red kebiki odoshi. Contained in an armour box with a stand. The interior of the box inscribed Masuda Miochin Ki Munesada Ansei Shi Hinoto Mi Nen Go Gatsu (1858).
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赤糸毛引威立挙胴童具足 江戸時代後期(19世紀中期)