{"product_id":"banksy-no-stopping-rat-school-road-sign-lewisham-london-2002-yellow-panel-with-red-spray-4962","title":"Banksy No Stopping Rat School Road Sign, Lewisham London 2002, Yellow Panel With Red Spray","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"jp-product\" data-world=\"Japan Luxury Archive\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"jp-lede\"\u003eA yellow school entrance plate reading No stopping, crossed by a loop of red spray, with a rat in the corner holding the can.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe Piece\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plate is yellow with black lettering giving the hours, Monday to Friday, eight to five, on school entrance markings. A red line has been sprayed in loops across the words, and at the lower right a rat stands with a paint can, plainly responsible. The back is grey with a maker plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt stood in 2002 near a school in Lewisham, south London. The piece is an early one, from the years when the rats first spread across the capital.\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 No Stopping Sign with Rat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSupport:\u003c\/strong\u003e Aluminium road sign plate\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 Lewisham, London, 2002\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMarks:\u003c\/strong\u003e Maker plate to the reverse\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=\"\/es\/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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