JAPON, Période Edo, XVIIIe siècleCasque, Kawari kabuto Casque à six facettes en fer, de forme conique dite Kaki-nariProvenance: Vente Christie's Londres, 7 juin 2000, lot 17 Hauteur : 24 cm Largeur : 32 cmProfondeur : 32 cmJAPAN, XVIIIth century. Kawari helmet, kabuto with six-plate russet-iron bowl of the conical form usually described as kaki-nari [persimmon shape], the suji [flanges] engraved with a rope effect and a row of zaboshi [rivets with washers at the base] down the centre of each plate, with a simple tehen-kanamono [fitting in the top of the bowl] in iron, brow-plate cusped over the eyes with narrow shakudo fukurin, embossed with eyebrows and wrinkles, black-lacquered iron Hineno-jikoro [close-fitting neck-guard] with mid-blue lacing in sugake [spaced] style, to the rear of the bowl a black-lacquered leather ushirodate [crest] now missing