Illustration:
ill. 2.2 a (set: 2.2)
Date:
ca. 1966-1976
Genre:
article of everyday use, commodity, vase, bottle
Material:
scan, paper, colour; original source: porcelain, ceramics, colour (印花）, height:12, 5 cm
Source:
Wenge yiwu 2000: Wenge yiwu shoucang yu jiage 文革遗物收藏与价格 (An archive and price list of relics from the Cultural Revolution), edited by Tie Yuan 铁源. Beijing: Hualing, 2000:9., Heidelberg catalogue entry
Inscription:
东方红
Keywords:
everyday life, Red Sun Fever, red sun, radiance, Mao Zedong, iconography, Red is the East, omnipresence, Cultural Revolution, battle song, waves

Bottle ornamented with Red is the East (Dongfang hong jiuhu 东方红酒壶)

Not unlike the model works, the song Red is the East would be everywhere during the Cultural Revolution. And not unlike the model works, it came, redundantly multiplied in every possible form: one could buy it on canvas as well as on cheap LPs, on postcards, and stamps, on cushions, liquor bottles and teapots, on washing basins, handbags and on vases and jugs, in short, on almost all the utensils of daily life. (See also DACHS Continuous Revolution).