Lot 2350
Tosei Gosuku, Meiji Period
Arms & Armour, and Antique Firearms | A109aw | Live auction | 1366 Lots
Description
Decorative matching armour with fine peony decoration in gold lacquer on black ground and light silk lacing. Black lacquered 18-plate hoshi suji kabuto with relief tehen kanamono. Four-lame shikoro with gilt kanamono. Fukigaeshi with mon in gold lacquer. Wooden oni maedate. Simple linen lining, with hanging suspension cords of purple silk. Iron resseibo mempo with moustache, ase nagashi no ana, bilateral orekugi and odome, four-lame yodare-kake. Hana firmly riveted. Mempo lacquered black on the outside and red on the inside. Five-lame chu sode, en suite with the do and fitted with embossed mounts. Kote with gilt chain mail on textile ground. Ni mai hotoke do lacquered in gold and black, with central mon, the lower edge with seven five-lame kusazuri of embossed, gold-lacquered plates, kebiki lacing. Matching six-lame haidate. Matching shoes covered in cowhide. In black gusikubetsu with mon painted in gold and two carrying handles, armour stand included.351176
Condition: II + Questions about the lot?
