A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] and mempo [face mask] | Edo period, 17th century

Property from an American Collector

A hoshi-bachi [helmet with standing rivets] and mempo [face mask]

Edo period, 17^th century 

the twenty-four plate russet iron bowl with standing rivets and ridges, rising into a five-tier copper-gilt tehen kanamono, the first tier pierced with boar's eye openings (inome-bori), copper mabisashi [peak] decorated in brown leather, the large fukigaeshi [turnbacks] of stenciled Dutch leather decorated with foliate scrolls and applied with copper-gilt aoi mon [leaves of wild ginger crests], the two-tired iron shikoro [neck guard] decorated in gold silk brocade with floral design and in sugake odoshi [spaced lacing] in light green braid, roundel maedate, copper-gilt kuwagata, the kuwagata-dai pierced, chased and engraved with a further aoi mon and chrysanthemums above foliage, the iron mempo with a russet patination, detachable nose plate, pronounced chin and horse bristle moustache and chin tuft, silver lacquer teeth, gold lacquer interior, two tier yodaregake [throat protector]

The shikoro to peak: 36 cm., 14⅛ in. 

Please note that the lot is sold without the display stand. A stand can be ordered through the department.