A black lacquer kawari kabuto (Eccentrically shaped helmet)


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th centuryConstructed of six vertical russet-iron plates hammered and riveted together to form a tall conical cap with six stiff ridges, the mabizashi hammered up in uchidashi with eyebrows, the entire bowl covered in black lacquer and fitted with a six-lame shikoro laced in blue, with a later gilt-wood maedate formed as a long-horned demon 10 3/4in (27.3cm) high, (excluding shikoro)
|ProvenancePreviously sold Sotheby's, New York, March 18, 2008, sale 8420, lot 264