Chinese Mao Zedong Circular Lapel Pin

Silvery profile, a rumpled red flag, and a scatter of red blossoms on white.

This Mao Zedong circular lapel pin is from China, and dates to the 20th century. It is metal. 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. Behind a silvery profile with brushed-back hair, a rippled red flag fills a pale blue disc, and its edges are rimmed with a thin border. Red blossoms and buds scatter across a white ground along the lower edge. It is 2.5 inches in diameter.

Cool blue, warm red, and a very pretty bottom edge.