A suji-bach [helmet with raised ridges] | Signed Saotome Iesada | Edo period, 17th century

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Lot Closed

November 2, 02:08 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 18,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Property from an American Collector

A suji-bachi [helmet with raised ridges]

Signed Saotome Iesada

Edo period, 17^th century

the sixty-two plate iron bowl with raised ridges, terminating in a five-stage copper-gilt and shakudo tehen kanamono, the mabisashi [peak] iron with three circular rivets, the fukigaeshi [turnbacks] in black lacquer applied with copper-gilt ishi-guruma mon [stone wheel crests], engraved copper-gilt fukurin, four-tier black lacquer shikoro [neck guard] with sugake odoshi [spaced lacing] in dark blue braid

The shikoro to peak: 34.2 cm., 13 in.

Please note that the lot is sold without the display stand. A stand can be ordered through the department.

The armourer Saotome Iesada practiced in Hitachi Province, modern day Ibaraki Prefecture, during the early Edo period (1600-1868). The son of Saotome Ienari, Iesada was the fourth master of the highly reputed Saotome line of armourers.

The motif of the ishi-guruma [stone wheel] crest derived from the stone wheel of an ox cart, the preferred vehicle of the Heian nobility. The emblem is surmised to have first been used as a pattern in the Heian period (794-1185), and only later being employed as a family crest [kamon] in the Kamakura period (1192-1333), associated with both the Sato and the Sakakibara clans