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A GROUP OF TWENTY-FIVE PORCELAIN BUSTS OF MAO A PAIR OF POLYCHROME ENAMELLED ‘LANDSCAPE’ BOWLS
ZEDONG Republic
1966-67 Each with the rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot,
A group of identical white biscuit moulded busts left unglazed, six of decorated to the exteriors with a riverside landscape, one with
smaller size, with inscriptions to the base: ‘Long Live Chairman Mao’. houses, the other with figures and a boat.
The taller: 19cm high (7 1/2in) high (25). 13cm (5 1/8in) diam. (2).

£2,000 - 3,000 £600 - 800
HK$17,000 - 25,000 HK$5,100 - 6,800
CNY15,000 - 23,000 CNY4,600 - 6,200
The busts are part of a hoard of 400 such figurines discovered on the
Sino-Tibetan border. The busts were intended for official distribution
to the outlying villages of the South-East corner of the Tibetan
Autonomous Region. They were shipped via Kunming to Lijiang,
repacked into packhorse baskets, then transported by horse to
Zhong Dian on the Yunnan/Tibet border.

Others from the same hoard were Exhibited:
Mao: Art For The Masses, Revolutionary Art of the Mao Zedong Era,
1950-1976, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, May 2003 -
March 2004.

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