Percival David

Percival David
Room 95, British Museum
The David Vases, said to be two of the best-known Chinese porcelains in the world, part of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art collection
An unadopted hand-drawn essay for the 1878–83 Large Dragon stamps of China once in Percival David's collection.[1]

Sir Percival Victor David Ezekiel David, 2nd Baronet (21 July 1892 – 9 October 1964) was a Bombay-born British financier who is best known as a scholar and collector of Chinese ceramics.[2] His collection of Chinese ceramics in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is regarded as the world's most important single collection outside of the palace collections in China and Taiwan. He also formed a collection of Chinese stamps and postal history that has been evaluated as one of the greatest ever assembled.

  1. ^ Auction: 16012 – Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post Lot: 1514. Archived 6 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine Spink. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  2. ^ S. H. Hansford, Obituary: Sir Percival David, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 28, No. 2 (1965), pp. 472–475