A koboshi kabuto


Edo period (1615-1868), 18th/19th centuryThe 62-plate bowl with 30 small, standing rivets on each plate, the area around the gilt tehen kanamono without rivets, the steep mabizashi mounted with a gilt-bronze kuwagata-dai pierce-carved with chrysanthemum scrolls and fitted with later gilt-metal kuwagata, the five-lame shikoro lacquered black and laced in blue sugake style, the fukigaeshi with stencilled leather and gilt-bronze crests of crossed hawk feathers