A pair of hand painted Chinese porcelain vases showing mirrored scenes of an ocean liner at sunset with the inscription 'Sailing the seas depends on a Helmsman, making revolution depends on Mao Zedong thought'. Smaller paintings of the ship on reverse, early 1970s, hand-painted on base 'Jiangxi porcelain Company', 27.5 cm high, Provenance: Bloomsbury Auctions, London, November 2009 'Mao and the arts of new China'.