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A GOOD MYOCHIN O-HOSHI-BOSHI-NO-KABUTO
EARLY AND MIDDLE EDO PERIOD (17TH/18TH CENTURY), THE SHIKORO SIGNED MYOCHIN OSUMI (NO) KAMI KI MUNECHIKA SAKU
The shallow bowl is comprised of sixteen exposed iron plates, each with a thin flange and a single row of hoshi, both diminishing in size towards the tehen; fore and aft are two copper shinodare, originally gilded, and set respectively with three and two ken; the octolobed and gilded (worn) tehen is decorated with finely carved stylized foliage on a nanako ground and the tehen-kanamono, which is of a pronounced oval shape, is comprised of layered petaled plates. The mabesashi is covered with stencilled doeskin suede affixed by ten star-shaped studs and edged with a border of plain gilt copper and fitted with a gilt copper maidate (19th Century) in the form of a sanko-tsuka-ken; the three-lame solid-plate shikoro is lacquered brown (some lacquer losses) and terminating in the flaring fukigaeshi emblazoned with an untraced gold-plated mon on a fine nanako ground; signed in a recessed square reserve under the second shikoro, Myochin Osumi (no) Kami Ki Munechika saku.
