Virtual wunderkammer
Ben Osto has started an online cabinet of curiosities. You can submit photos of unusual items in your posession, and if Ben deems them interesting, he'll include them on his site. He says: "We have entries coming from all sorts of folks, history writers, magicians, comedians, museum curators, polka bands, sideshow proprietors, scallywags, and a few street thugs. It will be officially launched in March (domain to be determined.) Each image item will have the owners name and a link to their site of choice."ITEM: Pro Gang of Four Porcelain
This statue, my wife and I found in Shang Hai, while traveling, and we know very little about it, except the obvious, which is that the porcelain is pro – “Gang of Four”. The man in the back is twisting the arm of the kneeling man in the dunce cap with the sign around his neck, who we assume is a teacher or some other intellectual type.
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