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Furniture used by Dr. Sun Yat-sen at the President Mansion of the Nanjing Provisional Government
Qing
Table: The table has a diameter: of 80.5cm, a height of 78cm and a base side length of 32.5cm; high back armrest leather chair, 93.7cm high, 61cm wide and 56cm deep; low back armchair, 73cm high, 53cm wide and 43cm deep.
This set of furniture includes a white marble stone round table, two wooden high back armrest leather chairs, and two wooden low back armchairs. White marble stone round table, made entirely from white marble stone, with a square base, square to spiral columns, engraved with four turtles and four cranes in the lower part, white in color and with exquisite engraving. High back armrest leather chair, with a wooden frame and round legs, decorated with spiral grains, leather padded in the seat and back. Low back armchair, wooden, round marbles embedded in the back and armrest rear panel. Dr. Sun Yat-sen carried this furniture out of Nanjing when resigning from the office of Provisional President, and deposited with his eldest brother Sun Mei in Macao. It was later kept by Sun Mei's grandson Sun Man, and donated to us in April 1985.
