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The white interior of the shallow bowl is decorated with an image of a red steamship plunging through stylized blue waves; the sky is filled with yellow sunshine. The image evokes the theme of the Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong. The wide, flat rim is…

The footed bowl is decorated on one outer side with three sunflowers facing a deep-pink sun at the upper right; the reverse outer side is inscribed in Chinese characters. A double blue bowstring runs around outer rim. This object was acquired by the…

On the top of the lid, on a red ground a boy wearing a Young Pioneer red kerchief looks up from his reading and gazes thoughtfully into the distance. His open book has a five-pointed red star. To the left are the inscription in Chinese characters…

A mountainous scene is stenciled on a white ground on this travel mug. A red flag flies on the main peak. The red inscription on the upper right identifies the site as Mount Jinggang [in Chinese characters - Jinggangshan], a revolutionary sacred site…

The white ground of this travel mug is stenciled with a red inscription and slogan on one side and an image of Tian'anmen gate and a decorative column on the other side. The slogan reads, "Serve the people around the world" [in Chinese characters -…

The white ground is decorated with a transferred still life image of two ping pong rackets, red and green, with ribbons on the handles, and a white ping pong ball on a green surface representing a ping pong table. Colorful flowers and green leaves…

The front of the white body is stenciled with a slogan in black, "Grasp revolution, promise production" [in Chinese characters - Zhua geming cu shengchan]. The mug is decorated with a countryside scene of a red tractor in a green field and a red sun…

The body is decorated with a green decal of four dancing women representing people from all over the world; on the reverse is a green decal with the slogan, "Listen to Chairman Mao's words [in Chinese characters - ting Mao zhuxi de hua]." There is a…

The bowl has a stenciled decoration of junks sailing on the sea with great waves and a red sun on the horizon. On the reverse is an inscription: "Sailing on the sea depends on the helmsman" [in red Chinese characters - dahai hangxing kao duoshou].

The white bowl is decorated with a blue bowstring on the rim. A green geometric pattern frames the red inscription stenciled on the exterior. The inscription reads: "Do not live off past gains. Make new contributions" [in Chinese characters - Buyao…