Japanese & Korean Works of Art - 20th May 2025
Lot 264
A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ITEMS
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000
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Description
A COLLECTION OF JAPANESE ITEMS
EDO/MEIJI, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
Comprising: a Japanese o-yoroi (composite suit of armour), with a kabuto (helmet) signed Miyata Katsusada saku, attributed to Miyata Katsusada (1653-c.1727); another kabuto; a pair of red kote (sleeves); a red and gold lacquered paper fan and an hinomaru (Japanese flag); all contained in a large European wooden chest. (a lot)
Provenance: from the Estate of a Collector, Heath House, Hampshire, and thence by descent. By repute, acquired in Asia at the turn of the 19th century.
Katsusada was the 6th master of the Miyata school of armour makers and trained in the Saga Prefecture (Kyushu). He later became retained by the Lord of Nabeshima and moved to Edo (Tokyo) in 1707. See the Louvre Abu Dhabi, access. no. LAD 2018.007, for an armour bearing the coat of arms of the Feudal Lord Nabeshima Yoshishige, signed Miyata Katsusada (1654-1730). Also, see the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, access. no.51.598, and the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester (USA), access. 2014.66.1, for other examples of dō (breastplates) by the same maker.