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A Japanese gold and black armour 20th century, decorated over…
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Sydney
Date:
26-Jun-2010
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Description:
A Japanese gold and black armour 20th century, decorated over all with scrolling vines on a black ground and comprising a suji kabuto with a four-lame shikoro, the fukig'shi with Shimazu family crests, the metal m'date pierce carved with the Shimazu family crest; the menpo applied with a moustache and fitted with a four-lame yodarekake; the cuirass a hybrid Hotoke do with scales along the top section and fitted with seven sections of five-lame kusazuri and decorated with a large Shimazu family crest on the front; chusode; odagote; kiritsuke kozane haidate; tsutsu suneate one armour box and one armour stand
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Oriental: Zother