Title
Plaque of Chairman Mao
Year/Period
1969
Region
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China
Object Type
Material
Dimension
Object size: Dia: 11
Accession No.
1997-04904
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr Xu Cheng Bin
This plaque was produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It features a popular image of a youthful Mao dressed as both a scholar and a soldier. To avoid being seen as counter-revolutionary, people producing Cultural Revolution materials often re-used standard images of Mao and combined them with other approved motifs. This can be seen in the two plaques featuring Mao in a Red Army uniform. In this one, he is presented as the symbol of communist China, standing before a sea of red flags. In the other (see 1997-04867), he is likened to the sun whose light shines upon the sunflowers, which symbolise the Chinese people.
