A ceramic plate by Grayson Perry made in 1980, featuring the provocative declaration "Niceness Is Sloth And Evil" as both title and conceptual anchor. True to Perry's early subversive sensibility, the work challenges the social conventions of the decorative ceramic tradition by embedding a confrontational moral statement within a domestic, everyday object. The piece exemplifies Perry's ongoing interest in using craft and kitsch as vehicles for unsettling cultural assumptions about politeness, virtue, and complacency.