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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 15, 2016 | Christie's | New York | AN INQUIRING MIND: AMERICAN COLLECTING OF JAPANESE AND KOREAN ART | 65 | $****** - ****** | A blue-laced Nimaido gusoku (armor) |
sculpture
Lacquered armor
EThe armor comprising:
Helmet [kabuto]: a russet iron ichimai kabuto (single sheet helmet) with embossed hachimanza (decorative component at the apex of the helmet bowl) and shinodare (arrow-shaped decorative strips), wide mabi-sashi (peak) with three large round rivets, the maedate (forecrest) of a gilt circle pierced with a cusp with chigai-ken (crossing swords)
Neck guard [shikoro]: five-tier manju-jikoro (neck-guard) of black-lacquered iron kittsukezane (sheets simulating individual scales), the fukigaeshi (turn-backs) clad with dyed leather and with gilt oak leaf mon (badges) within circles
Face mask [menpo]: a russet iron menpo (half mask) signed Mito Myochin ki Yoshiomi, with detachable nose, deeply-wrinkled cheeks, with four-tier yodare-kake (bib) of matching kittsukezane
Cuirass [do]: the six-section russet iron do (cuirass) with a central embossed roundel dragon above stylized waves around the lower edge, munaita (upper breast section) of one black-lacquered and one russet iron sheet laced together, agemaki no kan (ring for attachments) on embossed bat on the back
Skirt [kusazuri]: seven tassets each five tiers
Sleeves and shoulder guard [kote and sode]: russet iron hyotan-gote (sleeves), the tekko (hand covers) with applied oak leaf mon, seven-tier sode (shoulder guards)
Thigh protector and lower leg guards [haidate and sune-ate]: black lacquered haidate, russet iron plate sune-ate (lower leg guards), the hinged knee sections each embossed with the stylized character tora (tiger in the zodiac).
