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A MENPO (MASK)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 18th century
The black-lacquer iron ressei-style mask
with wrinkles to the cheeks, the detachable
nose with a red-lacquer upper lip and a hair
moustache, the wide mouth with gilt teeth,
odayori-no-kugi on the cheeks and the interior
lacquered in red, a lacquered iron five-lame
itamono yodarekake laced in white leather in
sugake style; unsigned.

£2,000 - 3,000
JPY300,000 - 440,000
US$2,600 - 4,000

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A MENPO (MASK)
Edo period (1615-1868), late 19th century
The black-lacquer iron mask in ressei style
forged with deep wrinkles and bulbous
detachable nose above a hair moustache,
beneath the chin-shaped odayori-no-kugi, a
two-lame leather yodarekake of black-lacquer
kiritsuke kozane laced in blue kebiki odoshi
and attached to the mask by a strip of leather,
the interior lacquered in red; unsigned.

£1,800 - 2,200
JPY270,000 - 330,000
US$2,400 - 2,900

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot FINE JAPANESE ART | 49
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.