Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

Soft-shaded greys, a cap with red collar tabs, and a gold rim that gleams.

This Mao Zedong lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is porcelain. During the Cultural Revolution, the article says, Mao's portrait or statue stood in virtually every home, and people bowed before it and recited quotations from the small Little Red Book. Fine gold rim circles the white disc. The figure looks right with a slight smile, shaded in smooth greys with a patch of bright red at each collar tab, and the picture sits compactly within the circle. It is 1.25 inches in diameter.

Quiet grey, with two bright exclamation marks of red.