EDO PERIOD (17TH CENTURY), SIGNED MYOCHIN MUNEAKI

Details

A Lacquered Half-Mask (Saru-bo)
Edo Period (17th century), signed Myochin Muneaki
Forged with scalloped edges on the cheeks and with deep wrinkles and a protruding chin, lacquered with a chin-tuft in silver, two pegs under the chin for helmet cords, pierced plum blossom ventilation holes under the chin, interior lacquered red; fitted with a five-lame solid plate throat guard lacquered brown and laced in blue and orange

Provenance

William A. Galeno

Special notice

This lot is offered without reserve.

Sale room notice

Please note this lot is signed Munekuni, not Muneaki.

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Ian Bottomley, Japanese Armor: The Galeno Collection (Berkeley: Stone Bridge Press, 1998), p. 152.
Kei Kaneda-Chappelear, Japanese Armor Makers for the Samurai (Tokyo: Miyoshi Printing Company, 1987), p. 52.

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