Chinese Mao Zedong Lapel Pin

One figure in a long coat, hands together mid-clap against flat red.

This Mao Zedong lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. Badges and lapel pins bearing Mao's face were produced by the billions, and Mao himself called a halt to production in 1969 because the metal used was seen as wasteful. On the right side of an unrimmed red disc, a figure brings both hands together. The coat is silvery with oil-slick highlights. Faint outlines of a building show at the left. It is 2 inches in diameter.

The applause is the whole composition, and it commits.