Set of 3 Commemorative Plates, Republican Period

China, Republican Period
Dimensions: 7.8″ (19.7cm) Dia (3)

Set of 3 commemorative plates decorated with two crossing flags and scripts with calligraphy indicating that it was originally a gift from Song Jiaoren. (3pcs)

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民國 紀念盤一組三只

Provenance: Collection Taoka Bunsen, Shizuoka, Japan.
來源：日本靜岡Taoka Bunsen舊藏

Note: Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China’s first democratic election. He based his appeal on the upper class gentry, landowners, and merchants. Historians have concluded that provisional president, Yuan Shikai, was responsible for his assassination on March 20, 1913.
宋教仁（1882年4月5日－1913年3月22日），字鈍初，號敦初，筆名漁父。出生於中國湖南省桃源縣。中國近代民主革命家，是中華民國初期第一位倡導責任內閣製的政治家，擔任過華興會和同盟會的主要領導、中華民國臨時政府唐紹儀內閣的農林部總長、也是國民黨的主要籌建人。曾留學日本法政大學 、早稻田大學。1913年3月20日，時任國民黨代理理事長的宋教仁在上海北站遭黑道分子槍擊，3月22日不治身亡，終年31歲。