{"product_id":"banksy-ghetto-rat-stencil-on-street-cabinet-door-brighton-before-2006-framed-with-period-photograph-3140","title":"Banksy Ghetto Rat Stencil On Street Cabinet Door, Brighton Before 2006, Framed With Period Photograph","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eA green metal door from a street cabinet with a stencilled rat and boom box at its foot, recorded in Brighton before 2006 and kept with a photograph of it in place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe door is tall and narrow, its pale green paint weathered and mottled, with the original lock plate at the top. Near the lower edge sits the rat in a cap and chain beside a portable stereo, sprayed in black. A period photograph, marked on its back with the year 2006 and the letters BTN, shows the door on its cabinet in a Brighton street; the building behind it is known to have been demolished since. Door and photograph are mounted together in a deep frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece came from a private collector in England. The street photograph is what sets it apart, since very few removed works can be shown where they once stood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Image and Its Street Life\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rat is the animal that made the artist famous. Hated, hunted and impossible to remove, it became the emblem of the small citizen who answers power back, and from the late nineties it appeared on kerbs, doors and street furniture across Bristol and London, usually at ankle height and usually up to no good. Road signs were among the first surfaces the artist used. An altered sign works twice: once as an order from the state, and once as the joke that undoes it. Signs made for English councils carry the label of their maker on the back, and that label is part of how these pieces are read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDetails\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"jp-details\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWork:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ghetto Rat, also called Gangsta Rat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSupport:\u003c\/strong\u003e Painted steel cabinet door\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Spray paint and stencil\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHistory:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brighton, England, before 2006\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePapers:\u003c\/strong\u003e Period photograph of the door in place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePresentation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Custom frame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSizes are measured by hand; please allow a small margin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eCondition\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKept as it left the street: weather, scratches, old fixings and paint loss are part of its history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo restoration is noted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery photograph is part of the description.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition grade \u003cstrong\u003eB (good)\u003c\/strong\u003e on the Japanese scale; see \u003ca href=\"\/de\/blogs\/news\/japanese-condition-ranks-explained\"\u003eJapanese condition ranks, explained\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAuthenticity \u0026amp; Care\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis piece is offered as a street work by the artist on the strength of its recorded history, the marks it carries and the papers shown in the photographs. Pest Control, the office that speaks for the artist, does not certify works taken from the street, and no certificate from that office accompanies it. Collectors who wish to examine the history in full, or to arrange an independent opinion, are invited to write to the Desk before buying. Examined and photographed in Japan before dispatch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eDelivery from Japan\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked by hand in Japan in a rigid case and sent insured by express freight; because of its size the delivery charge is quoted and agreed with you before purchase. Import duties and taxes, where applicable, are payable on arrival. 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