SAOTOME IENORI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1789-1800) A Fine Russet-Iron Suji Kabuto Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryProperty of various ownersSAOTOME IENORI (ACTIVE CIRCA 1789-1800)A Fine Russet-Iron Suji Kabuto Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryConstructed of 62 russet-iron plates, the front plate decorated with a single iron shinodare flourish, the slightly recessed crown embellished with a five-stage chrysanthemum-form shibuichi and shakudō tehen kanamono, the mabizashi and fukigaeshi trimmed with a silver fukurin chiseled with vines on a nanako ground, the six-lame iron shikoro lacquered black, laced in blue sugake lacing, and finished with small fukigaeshi applied with silver heraldic crests of water plantains, signed on the interior rear of the bowl Ōshū no jū Saotome Ienori, the russet-lacquer ressei menpō with wrinkles on the cheeks and the bridge of the nose, and applied with a boar-bristle mustache and chin tuft, with a three-lame lacquered-leather yodarekake laced in blueNone