**A JAPANESE HELMET (JINGASA), EDO PERIOD with leather skull covered with boar hair over the outer surface, fitted at its apex with a moulded brass tehen, centring on a Y-shaped pattern of contrasting white boar's hair, brass kasa-jirushi no kwan at the rear, the interior lacquered red (losses), painted with a gilt mon, and retaining a padded silk lining 35.5 cm; 14 in diameter Provenance Angelo Peyron, Florence, sold Savoy Art and Auction Galleries, New York, 5 November 1954, part of lot 588 JWHA Inv. No. 3083