LOT 159 A SAMURAI ARMOUR WITH HELMET
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Description: Very impressive. Including a helmet, kabuto, and the top with a rosette in the form of a kiku (chrysanthemum), on the back an orange agemaki. The facemask mempo is made of iron with horsehair moustache and four lame yodare-kake (throat guards). The shoulder pads sode are crafted of six strips connected by fabric bands. The other parts of the armor are: the chest-piece, do, the front of which is decorated with an Akechi clan crest, the kusazuri; the shoulder-guards, called sode; the forearm-guards, kote, made of silk and featuring chains and buckles, attached to which are the handguards, made of cloth and thin iron; haidate and Sune-ate, the thigh-coverings and shin-guards also with brocade and chains. The shoes of iron with gilt decoration. With a box. Condition: This set of armor is almost entirely complete, with signs of aging appropriate for its age and use; the box with damaged corners Provenance: From a Hungarian private collection
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2018.6.1
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Vienna, Vienna, AT
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