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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF DOROTHY TAPPER GOLDMAN 重要中४藝術暨高曼珍藏
Property from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection
943
A RARE LARGE GLAZED
BISCUIT FIGURE OF GUANYIN
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH
CENTURY
35º in. (89.5 cm.) high
$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Samuel Craft Davis (1871-1940) Collection, St.
Louis, Missouri.
William Bigler (1908-1979) and Alita Davis
(1905-1988) Weaver Collection, Greenwich,
Connecticut.
Nathaniel Pryor (1933-2018) and Alita Davis
Weaver (1941-2023) Reed Collection, Jupiter
Island, Florida, and thence by descent within the
family.
阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏
明末清׀ 十ˑˠ紀 素˕彩觀音⒤像
Ϝ源
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，格林威治，康乃
ṼԳ州
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
Property from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection
942
A RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED 阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏
YELLOW-GLAZED SQUARE DISH 明嘉靖 黃ঃ青花歲寒˕友圖方盤 Ս字楷書款
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1522-1566) Ϝ源
Samuel Craft Davis（1871 1940）珍藏，聖㊌易斯，密蘇里州
9¡ in. (23.8 cm.) diam.
William Bigler （1908 1979） 及Alita Davis 1905 1988） Weaver 伉儷珍藏，
$15,000-25,000 格林威治，康乃ṼԳ州
Nathaniel Pryor （1933 2018） 及Alita Davis Weaver （1941 2023） Reed 伉儷
PROVENANCE:
Samuel Craft Davis (1871-1940) Collection, St. Louis, Missouri. 珍藏，朱庇ṁ島，ζ羅里達州， 後於家族ҷ承
William Bigler (1908-1979) and Alita Davis (1905-1988) Weaver Collection,
Greenwich, Connecticut.
Nathaniel Pryor (1933-2018) and Alita Davis Weaver (1941-2023) Reed
Collection, Jupiter Island, Florida, and thence by descent within the family.
A similar Jiajing mark-and-period underglaze-blue-decorated yellow-
glazed square dish of approximately the same size is illustrated by J.
Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001,
p. 253, no. 9:87. Harrison-Hall describes the decoration as “a composite
plant combining the Three Friends of Winter – prunus, pine and (detail)
bamboo – with two lingzhi plants”.
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