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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
947
A VERY RARE AND LARGE
DEHUA RETICULATED VASE
17TH-18TH CENTURY
14q in. (36.8 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000
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.

A slightly larger (38.5 cm.) Dehua vase of
similar shape and with similar reticulated
decoration, but lacking the mask handles, the
band of band of pierced circles near the foot,
and the gilt-decorated bands, is illustrated
by R. H. Blumenfield in Blanc de Chine: The
Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p.
37, where it is dated early to mid-seventeenth
century.
阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏
十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀 德٪白釉鏤雕描金松鶴延年
鋪獸首筒瓶
Ϝ源
Samuel Craft Davis（1871 1940）珍藏，聖㊌易斯，
密蘇里州
Property from the Alita Davis Weaver Reed Collection William Bigler （1908 1979） 及Alita Davis 1905
1988） Weaver 伉儷珍藏，格林威治，康乃ṼԳ州
946
Nathaniel Pryor （1933 2018） 及Alita Davis
A FINELY DECORATED FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRDS Weaver （1941 2023） Reed 伉儷珍藏，朱庇ṁ島，
AND LOTUS POND' BOWL ζ羅里達州， 後於家族ҷ承
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
5¬ in. (14.2 cm.) diam.
$12,000-18,000

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.

Compare the very similar Chenghua-marked bowl illustrated in Kangxi
Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong,
1998, pp. 150-1, no. 102.

阿⒤塔g戴維斯g薇荷g理德珍藏
清康熙 ̩彩鴛鴦戲蓮圖盌
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

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