A lacquered suji kabuto Edo period (1615-1868), 18th century The 62-plate suji bachi lacquered brown and fitted with a four-stage gilt-copper tehen kanamono, signed on the interior of the bowl Myochin Munenaga, the five-lame manju shikoro with blue sugake lacing and terminating in fukigaeshi applied with gilt-copper chrysanthemum clusters, the bowl adorned with a 19th-century gilt-copper maedate of flames surrounding a bronze mirror 6in (15.2cm) high (helmet bowl)