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Chinese Ceramics from the

Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection

阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏中४瓷器

(Lots 938–949)

amuel C. Davis (1871-1940) was born in St. Louis to a prominent Works of art, including the following selection of ceramics, were passed
family of dry-good merchants and gained his interest in Chinese down through the family to Samuel C. Davis’s granddaughter, Alita
Sceramics while embarking on a world tour after graduating from Davis Weaver (1941-2023), who married the prominent environmentalist
Harvard University in 1893. In 1904 Davis attended the Louisiana and political aide Nathaniel Pryor Reed (1933-2018) in 1965. While
Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World’s Fair, serving at the US Department of the Interior as the Assistance
where there were displays of Asian art. Around 1920 Davis met the Secretary of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Nathaniel Reed co-wrote the
preeminent Chinese art dealer C. T. Loo, who subsequently became Endangered Species Act of 1973. He is also credited with helping to
Davis’s primary dealer for the next twenty years. With Loo’s guidance, pass the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, as
Davis amassed one of the largest collections of Chinese porcelain in well as stopping the use of the potent insecticide DDT. Residing on
America. Loo organized exhibitions of Davis’s collection at the St. Jupiter Island, Florida, the Reed Family made significant contributions
Louis Art Museum in 1935 and 1936, as well as in 1940 after Davis’s to the local community and to the conservation of Florida lands,
death. Upon his death, Davis bequeathed over two hundred pieces of including a 1968 donation of five miles of beachfront to create the
porcelain, as well as stone, bronze and lacquer works, to the St. Louis Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge.
Art Museum, including the Museum’s celebrated Ru ware dish. Davis
also bequeathed a large number of Chinese ceramics and works of art to Jade carvings from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection, which were
Harvard University. Samuel Davis’s illustrious brother, Dwight F. Davis formerly in the Samuel C. Davis Collection, will be offered in this sale
(1879-1945), after whom the international tennis tournament Davis Cup as lots 1235 and 1236.
is named, served as Secretary of War from 1925-1929 and Governor
General of the Philippines from 1929-1932.

山姆g戴維斯（ 年）生於聖㊌易斯ˏй顯㈥ⅲ̖貨ˠ家，於 際網球比㈃ğ戴維斯盃Ġ˩是͠Ւ而命名ǐ૯衛g戴維斯曾於 至 年
年哈ζ૯學畢業後，展開‍球̃旅，˩對中४瓷器產生̞濃厚興趣ǐ 擔任美४戰ḉ部長ˏ職，˩於 至 年擔任菲律賓✼∓ǐ
年，戴維斯參؟̞㊌易斯安那㈂ঃ博覽會（Е稱聖㊌易斯ˠ₇博覽會），博
覽會Շ有琳瑯滿目ⅲ̯洲藝術品ǐ於 年ע後，戴維斯結ㄦ̞中४藝術品 ͠˗瓷器及工藝★品，ҷ承有序，乃屬山姆g戴維斯孫女阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇
鑒藏૯̸盧芹齋ǐ在此後̣十年Ϝ，盧芹齋成為戴維斯蒐藏۵董ⅲ主要經紀 荷所得家族遺㈌ǐ薇荷於 年與著名‍Л及政治家納撒尼ḓg普賴ḓg理
́ǐ在盧芹齋ⅲ鼎力相إ˗，戴維斯搜奇選妙，構建̞Ո美最૯ⅲ中४瓷器 德
喜結連理ǐ納
珍藏̃ˏǐ 撒尼g理德在美य़内政部擔任漁㏏及Ռ७̢فⅲإ理部長期間，於 年聯
席㈯草̞Ǘ瀕危ḵ種法ǘǐ他̑因為ژإ通過Ǘ淨水法ǘǏǗ海洋哺̔動ḵ
盧芹齋於 年及 年在聖㊌易斯藝術博ḵ館舉㏇̞戴維斯集珍ṁ展，˩ Лㄼ法ǘ及禁止ϕ用強效殺蟲劑滴滴涕而ҧ受ㅘㅁǐ理德家族在定居弗洛裡
於 年，在戴維斯與ˠ長㏊後，ⓧ˕度舉㏇ṁ展ǐ 戴維斯遺㈌̞Չ百餘件 達州ⅲ朱庇ṁ岛後，對₤ঃ社ڈ及弗洛裡達州ⅲ土ঃЛㄼ⒤˗汗馬功ل，˩於
瓷器Ǐ⊅雕Ǐ青銅器͠及漆器給聖㊌易斯藝術博ḵ館，Ւ中包括Ւ鎮館̃寶 年捐㈌̩英里海岸線，用͠建⒤霍Τ桑德४家野生動ḵЛㄼڈǐ
汝⒋盤ǐ 除此̃外，戴維斯還為哈ζ૯學遺㈌̞各色中४瓷器及工藝珍品ǐ
山姆g戴維斯ⅲ胞弟，૯衛g戴維斯（ 年）ⅲ名字家喻戶曉，४ 阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏中，山姆g戴維斯舊藏ⅲՉ件玉雕̑於本次
拍賣中˖拍，編號 及 ǐ

Property from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection
938
A VERY RARE PURPLE-SPLASHED JUN VASE ON 金 元 鈞⒋紫斑連座瓶
INTEGRAL STAND Ϝ源
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY (1115-1368) Samuel Craft Davis（1871 1940）珍藏，聖㊌易斯，密蘇里州
William Bigler （1908 1979） 及Alita Davis 1905 1988） Weaver 伉儷珍藏，
7q in. (19 cm.) high
格林威治，康乃ṼԳ州
$30,000-50,000 Nathaniel Pryor （1933 2018） 及Alita Davis Weaver （1941 2023） Reed 伉
儷珍藏，朱庇ṁ島，ζ羅里達州， 後於家族ҷ承
PROVENANCE:
Samuel Craft Davis (1871-1940) Collection, St. Louis, Missouri.
William Bigler (1908-1979) and Alita Davis (1905-1988) Weaver Collection, Compare the Jun vase of similar form and size and raised on integral
Greenwich, Connecticut. glazed stand, but lacking purple splashes, from the collection of Evelyn
Nathaniel Pryor (1933-2018) and Alita Davis Weaver (1941-2023) Reed Annenberg Jaffe Hall, was sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2023,
Collection, Jupiter Island, Florida, and thence by descent within the family. lot 1022.