Iron black lacquer kawari kabuto (helmet) unsigned, 18th century

the six-plate iron bowl lacquered into noshi (folded paper) on top of a momonari shape base, fitted with four-stage ita-jikoro (neck guard) extended into a small fukigaeshi (blow back) with a fixed gold lacquered wood pierced maedate (helmet frontal decoration) of three facing gilt-lacquered birds

It has a few surface cracks to lacquer in front area. It has some cracks to the shikoro (neck guards) Maedate has lost some gold lacquer visible in the catalogue illustration and it doesn't have the device to fix it to the maedate stand (haraidate).
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