![A NI MAI DANGAYE DO TOSEI GUSOKU [AN ARMOUR WITH A TWO PIECE CUIRASS EXHIBITING DIFFERING STYLES OF LACING]](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06176_0308_000(114533).jpg?w=1)
HELMET BOWL EARLY EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), ARMOUR EDO PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
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A NI MAI DANGAYE DO TOSEI GUSOKU [AN ARMOUR WITH A TWO PIECE CUIRASS EXHIBITING DIFFERING STYLES OF LACING]
Helmet Bowl Early Edo Period (17th Century), Armour Edo Period (18th Century)
The thirty-two plate suji bachi [ridged bowl] black lacquered, the suji gold lacquered and mounted with gilded copper, a five lame close fitting hineo style neckguard of iron false lamellae [kiritsuke kozane] with fukigayeshi gold lacquered, the red lacquered nara style mask of good form with metal teeth and hair moustache and chin tuft; the do laced sugake [spaced] and the lower kebiki [close] lacing, the tassets gold lacquered, sleeves of mail with small gilded plates and a stylised ken [sword] in gilded and silvered iron on the fore arm and round plates of a mon [badge] design on the upper arms, gild lacquered leather iyo haidate [thigh guards] and black lacquered iron shino suneate [shin guards], all laced in mid blue close lacing
Helmet Bowl Early Edo Period (17th Century), Armour Edo Period (18th Century)
The thirty-two plate suji bachi [ridged bowl] black lacquered, the suji gold lacquered and mounted with gilded copper, a five lame close fitting hineo style neckguard of iron false lamellae [kiritsuke kozane] with fukigayeshi gold lacquered, the red lacquered nara style mask of good form with metal teeth and hair moustache and chin tuft; the do laced sugake [spaced] and the lower kebiki [close] lacing, the tassets gold lacquered, sleeves of mail with small gilded plates and a stylised ken [sword] in gilded and silvered iron on the fore arm and round plates of a mon [badge] design on the upper arms, gild lacquered leather iyo haidate [thigh guards] and black lacquered iron shino suneate [shin guards], all laced in mid blue close lacing