Mao badge
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Mao badge

Chinese
Modern period, 1912–present
2009-19.45
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Round 2.55 cm. diam. with 1.1 cm. diam. roundellewith +small Mao profile ona red ground. Badge surface = mostly white enamel; central lower half has large ocean-going vessel in 3D relief with red flags fore & aft; light blue enamel for waves/water below & steam above. 3 gold seagulls along upper right edge; left edge has vertical inscription: “伟大舵手” (The Great Helmsman). Background = white enamel. Back: plain

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Title
Mao badge
Medium
146 political badges of various shapes and sizes pinned on a T-shirt with a silkscreened image of Mao Zedong in pigtails by Zhang Hongtu
Dimensions
badge: diam. 2.55 cm. (1 in.); overall: ca. 77 x ca. 90 cm. (30 5/16 x 35 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Zhang Hongtu
Object Number
2009-19.45
Culture
Chinese
Period
modern Chinese styles and periods
Subject
revolutions

–2009 Collection of Zhang Hongtu (Woodside, NY), by gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 2009.

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