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The Great Union of All the Races of China
1971-1972
Black lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl depicting a group of eleven Designed by Associate Professor Zong Zhaochun, who was based in
dancers and musicians with instruments, a basket of flowers and the Jiangsu Institute of Art, Nanjing, and Senior Master Zhang Yu
long swirling ribbons, framed. Made by Senior Masters Li Duanhua and Gao Yangmao
107cm x 48cm (42in x 19in) This plaque took one year to make during 1971-1972. It was
£20,000 - 30,000 exhibited at Jiangsu Provincial Arts and Crafts Exhibition of 1974 held
HK$250,000 - 370,000 CNY200,000 - 290,000 in the Chaotian Temple, Nanjing.
94% of the population of China belongs to the Han ethnic group. The
1971-1972年 黑漆嵌螺鈿「民族團結」圖板 remaining 6% belongs to 55 recognised national minorities, which
include the most populous Zhuang, Hui, Uyghur, Yi, Miao, Manchu,
Provenance: produced at Yangzhou and exhibited in China until Tibetan and Mongol minorities. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s
the end of the Cultural Revolution, and then placed in storage at the wife Jiang Qing, a former actress, devoted herself to a theatrical
No.1 State Lacquer Factory in Yangzhou renaissance. The ‘feudalistic bourgeois rubbish’ of the traditional
Exhibited at the Olympia Fine Arts and Antiques Fair, New Art from Peking Opera was condemned in favour of the artistic treatment of
Ancient China - Lacquer from Yangzhou, November 1998 contemporary themes. This plaque illustrates an operatic ballet of the
A British private collection same title from one such Revolutionary Modern Opera.

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
第一漆廠的儲存室
1998年11月出展於奧林比亞藝術及古董博覽會的《New Art from
Ancient China - lacquer from Yangzhou》展覽
英國私人收藏

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