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Auction archive: Lot number 465

Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor)

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$25,000
Price realised:
US$25,000
Auction archive: Lot number 465

Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor)

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$25,000
Price realised:
US$25,000
Beschreibung:

Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor)
EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor) Edo period (17th-18th century) The armor comprising a sixty-two-plate russet iron sujibachi (ridged bowl) helmet signed Inshu ju Suzuki Kanemitsu , five-tier gilt and colored alloy hachimanza (decorative surround to aperture in the crown), maedate (forecrest) of a gilt single-horned grimacing shikami head, five-tier black-lacquered iron kittsukezane (lacquered iron plate simulated rows of linked scales) manju-jikoro (neck guard) with blue kebiki-odoshi (close lacing), the fukigaeshi (turn-backs) clad with dyed leather with seaweed motif and with gilt fukurin (edging) matching the helmet brim and with gilt triple interlocking rings mon , russet iron menpo (face mask) with detachable nose signed Inshu ju Kanemitsu with four-tier yodare-kake (bib), kiko erimawashi (brigandine neck and shoulders mantle), the okegawa hishinui-do (cuirass) of brown-lacquered iron with a central encircling dragon in gold and colored high-relief lacquer, the munaita (breast section) reinforced with blue laced rows of kittsukezane, gyoyo (shoulder strap covers) matching the fukigaeshi with the same mon, kusazuri (skirt) of seven tassets each of five tiers of close-laced kittsukezane , matching sode (shoulder guards) of seven tiers, five-splint russet iron shinogote (sleeves), the tekko (hand covers) with applied gilt mon , Iyo haidate (thigh guard) with two gold-lacquered mon , russet iron shino-suneate (lower leg guards), together with its box bearing the same gilt mon

Auction archive: Lot number 465
Auction:
Datum:
18 Mar 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
18 March 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor)
EDO PERIOD (17TH-18TH CENTURY)
Brown lacquered Okegawa hishi-nui nimai-do gusoku (armor) Edo period (17th-18th century) The armor comprising a sixty-two-plate russet iron sujibachi (ridged bowl) helmet signed Inshu ju Suzuki Kanemitsu , five-tier gilt and colored alloy hachimanza (decorative surround to aperture in the crown), maedate (forecrest) of a gilt single-horned grimacing shikami head, five-tier black-lacquered iron kittsukezane (lacquered iron plate simulated rows of linked scales) manju-jikoro (neck guard) with blue kebiki-odoshi (close lacing), the fukigaeshi (turn-backs) clad with dyed leather with seaweed motif and with gilt fukurin (edging) matching the helmet brim and with gilt triple interlocking rings mon , russet iron menpo (face mask) with detachable nose signed Inshu ju Kanemitsu with four-tier yodare-kake (bib), kiko erimawashi (brigandine neck and shoulders mantle), the okegawa hishinui-do (cuirass) of brown-lacquered iron with a central encircling dragon in gold and colored high-relief lacquer, the munaita (breast section) reinforced with blue laced rows of kittsukezane, gyoyo (shoulder strap covers) matching the fukigaeshi with the same mon, kusazuri (skirt) of seven tassets each of five tiers of close-laced kittsukezane , matching sode (shoulder guards) of seven tiers, five-splint russet iron shinogote (sleeves), the tekko (hand covers) with applied gilt mon , Iyo haidate (thigh guard) with two gold-lacquered mon , russet iron shino-suneate (lower leg guards), together with its box bearing the same gilt mon

Auction archive: Lot number 465
Auction:
Datum:
18 Mar 2014
Auction house:
Christie's
18 March 2014, New York, Rockefeller Center
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