Furniture made by Li Bing in the style of the Ming dynasty is on display at the Geyi Art Gallery in Nantong. [Photo/ntfabu.com]

A wooden furniture exhibition is currently underway on the first floor of the Geyi Art Gallery in Nantong.

On display are an array of Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasty-style pieces of furniture by Li Bing, a Jiangsu provincial-level senior craft artist and a part-time professor at the School of Art at Nantong University.

Li started learning to restore ancient furniture from a collector in Shanghai in 1995 and set up his home restoration workshop in 2002.

In 2005, he restored a red-wood folding screen featuring twelve Chinese zodiac signs from the Republic of China period (1912-1949) for the Nantong Museum. The same year, Li also reproduced a waterwheel originating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC - AD 220) for the museum.

His tools and manuscripts over the past three decades are also on display at the exhibition, which will run until Dec 6.

A guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional Chinese instrument, made by Li Bing is on display at the Geyi Art Gallery in Nantong. [Photo/ntfabu.com]

Furniture made by Li Bing is on display at the Geyi Art Gallery in Nantong. [Photo/ntfabu.com]