A Chinese Cultural Revolution 'struggle session' figure group, 1966-1976 Collection of Asa Briggs (1921-2016)

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The group depicted two Red Guards dressed in their distinctive apple-green uniforms, replete with red armbands and a Little Red Book, holding a distressed man, brought to his knees and adorned with a sign that reads da dao ('defeat'), the unglazed base with a numeric factory mark Size:(31.5cm high) Qty: (1) Provenance:Collection of Asa Briggs (1921-2016), thence by descent. Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs was an English historian, and was as a leading specialist on the Victorian era and the foremost historian of broadcasting in Britain. Briggs achieved international recognition during his long and prolific career for examining various aspects of modern British history. Over the years he accumulated a fascinating collection of Cultural Revolution relics, and whilst this mostly consisted of ceramic figures, it also included a wide array of cultural ephemera. 來源： 艾薩·布里格斯（1921–2016）珍藏，後由家族繼承。 艾薩·布里格斯，即Baron Briggs，為英國著名歷史學家，尤以維多利亞時代研究權威及英國廣播史史學泰斗聞名於世。在其漫長且高產的學術生涯中，布里格斯因對英國現代史各領域的深刻剖析而享譽國際。多年來，他建立了一系列引人入勝的文革時期文物收藏；藏品雖以陶瓷塑像為主，亦涵蓋了大量珍貴的時代文化遺存。