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The Sanwan Reorganisation
1967-1968
Carved black lacquer and painted in relief with gesso depicting Mao Designed by Wei Yongqing, a graduate of the Guangzhou Art
standing tall and surrounded admiringly by young members of the Institute
Communist Party standing to attention, some with flags, and local Made by Junior Masters Jiang Houlan, Wang Jinghui and Jiang
peasants wearing traditional turbans, framed. Debao
117cm x 91.5cm (46in x 36in) Made over 12 months during 1967-1968, this plaque was produced
£15,000 - 25,000 during the early stages of the Cultural Revolution. It was not made for
HK$190,000 - 310,000 CNY150,000 - 250,000 any particular reason other than that it was considered a political task
to create new artworks to show the spirit of the time and to reinforce
1967-1968年 黑漆石膏畫「三灣改編」圖板 the cult of Mao.
In 1927, after urban failures and the collapse of its united front with
Provenance: produced at Yangzhou and exhibited in China until the National Party, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) abandoned
the end of the Cultural Revolution, and then placed in storage at the the cities and retreated to the countryside. The first rural base was
No.1 State Lacquer Factory in Yangzhou at Jinggangshan on the Jiangxi/Hunan border. The autumn of 1927
Exhibited at the Olympia Fine Arts and Antiques Fair, New Art from saw three major CCP insurrections within the nationalist troups,
Ancient China - Lacquer from Yangzhou, November 1998 commencing with the now famous Nanchang insurrection of 1st
A British private collection August. Professional nationalist soldiers, led by General Zhu De, fled
to the mountains and joining Mao’s rag-tag army consisting of locally
來源：產於揚州，一直在中國出展直到文化大革命結束，後存在揚州 recruited peasants and unemployed miners. At Sanwan, on the way
第一漆廠的儲存室 to Jinggangshan, Mao was able to re-organise his army; keeping
1998年11月出展於奧林比亞藝術及古董博覽會的《New Art from the best soldiers, sending home the less professional ones and
Ancient China - lacquer from Yangzhou》展覽 instigating ‘party leaders’ for each formation, in addition to military
英國私人收藏 commanders.

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