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The exhibition displays a pair of yoke-back chairs with rounded everted ends that belong to the rarest category of Ming yoke-back chairs with surviving specimens.

Qiao explains the show aims to preserve and disseminate the furniture's cultural components while honoring Wang's efforts to do so.

"In the early stage of his collecting, Wang had to choose between buying milk powder for his child and a piece of Ming furniture," Qiao says.

"He wasn't then aware his collection would become so valuable."