A FINE AND RARE KAKIEMON MODEL OF A SAMURAI, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY

A FINE AND RARE KAKIEMON MODEL OF A SAMURAI, EDO PERIOD, LATE 17^TH-EARLY 18^TH CENTURY

the seated figure holding a fan with a daisho slung around his waist, the moulded details of the laced sode, do and undergarments clearly delineated, the kabuto with shikoro and large turnbacks with mon, the maedate in the form of a tama in the centre of the kuwagata, all decorated in iron-red, green, blue, yellow and black enamels, the figure seated on an armour box

32.5 cm., 12¾ in. high