A SET OF TWELVE KINKOZAN PLATES each painted in coloured enamels and gilt with a hexafoil panel on a dark blue ground decorated with feather roundels and comma motifs within a geometric band of demi flowerheads and leaves to the rim, each panel depicting a scene from Chushingura (A Treasury of Loyalty), the celebrated story of The Forty-Seven Ronin, all eleven acts being represented with two scenes from Act XI, all signed and sealed Kinkozan zo (some gilt rubbing, three damaged), 19th Century

细节

A SET OF TWELVE KINKOZAN PLATES each painted in coloured enamels and gilt with a hexafoil panel on a dark blue ground decorated with feather roundels and comma motifs within a geometric band of demi flowerheads and leaves to the rim, each panel depicting a scene from Chushingura (A Treasury of Loyalty), the celebrated story of The Forty-Seven Ronin, all eleven acts being represented with two scenes from Act XI, all signed and sealed Kinkozan zo (some gilt rubbing, three damaged), 19th Century
21cm. diam (12)

拍品专文

Although there have been some forty or fifty plays on this subject, the most popular version of this was dramatised by Takeda Izumo and was told in eleven acts.