Armour
Category
Arms and armour
Date
1850 - 1899
Materials
Iron, lacquer, animal hair
Place of origin
Japan
Collection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328750.2
Summary
Half mask (menpō), Japanese, of black lacquered iron with a white animal hair moustache and silvered teeth, decorated on the chin with two water caltrop (Trapa natans) leaves.
Provenance
Purchased by Charles Paget Wade (1883–1956) from Wyndham Payne, 29 Portland Street, Cheltenham, 31 March 1943 (£6 for four dressed figures); given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor, 1951.