A Chinese Cultural Revolution Baluster Vase, A blue and white hand-painted porcelain vase, depicting a family in the countryside, the reverse with an inscription relating to the ‘Down to the Countryside’ movement of the Cultural Revolution, in which the educated youth relocated from urban centres to rural areas, the base with an inscription that reads Shanghai shi hua [x] weiyuanhui jianzhi. Circa late-1960s.

53cm tall