Cylindrical vase, decorated with Cultural Revolution transfer prints of paramount leader Mao Zedong and Lin Biao, his then second-inmand and designated successor but who died in a plane crash in September 1971 in Mongolia after the discovery of a plot to remove Mao. He was posthumously condemned as a traitor. Beneath the image of the pair it reads "Chairman Mao and his closerade Lin Biao inspect the army of the Cultural Revolution". On the reverse it reads "Chairman Mao quotation / Grasp the revolution and promote production",12.5cm high, 5.3cm diameterPROVENANCE: Michael Backman, London 2011