Illustration:
ill. 2.2 b (set: 2.2)
Date:
ca. 1966-1976
Genre:
article of everyday use, commodity, teapot
Material:
internet file, colour; original source: ceramics, colour, height: 16.5 cm
Source:
DACHS 2008 Mao parapharnelia, “Red is the East”, Heidelberg catalogue entry
Courtesy:
The East is Red, LLC sales@theeastisred.com
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, warship, waves

Red is the East on Teapot (Dongfang hong chahu 东方红茶壶)

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.