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{{Short description|British financier, scholar and collector of Chinese ceramics (1892–1964)}}
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[[File:Percival David.jpg|thumb|Percival David]]
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[[File:Room 95 David Vases 6747.JPG|thumb|right|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]]
[[File:Esssay for the 1878-83 The Large Dragon Issue stamps of China.jpg|thumb|An unadopted hand-drawn [[Essay (philately)|essay]] for the 1878–83 Large Dragon stamps of China once in Percival David's collection.<ref name=spink1514>[https://www.spink.com/lot-description.aspx?id=16012001514 Auction: 16012 – Meiso Mizuhara, The Exhibition Collections, The Chinese Customs Post Lot: 1514.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006003613/https://www.spink.com/lot-description.aspx?id=16012001514 |date=6 October 2016 }} Spink. Retrieved 13 October 2016.</ref>]]
'''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]].<ref>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</ref> He also formed a collection of Chinese stamps and postal history that has been evaluated as one of the greatest ever assembled.

==Early life==
David was born in Bombay into a Jewish family in British India that originated in [[Baghdad]]. His father, [[Sir Sassoon David, 1st Baronet]], founded the [[Bank of India]].<ref name=BM>[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=141344 Sir Percival David, 2nd Baronet (Biographical details).] British Museum. Retrieved 13 October 2016.</ref>

He was educated in India at [[Elphinstone College]] and the [[University of Bombay]], and then at the University of London (D. Lit.).

==Personal life==
David married in 1912,<ref name="Chinese Antiques">{{cite web|title=The Percival David Collection : A Brief History Of The Collection|url=http://www.chineseantiques.co.uk/percival-david-collection-a-brief-history-of-the-collection/|website=Chinese Antiques|accessdate=13 October 2016}}</ref> and Sheila Yorke Hardy was his second wife<ref name="Pierson2007">{{cite book|author=Stacey Pierson|title=Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560–1960|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nPppyXCj1dIC&pg=PA175|year=2007|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-3-03910-538-0|page=175}}</ref>

He married in 1920, in London, and inherited his father's baronetcy in 1926.

He funded for excavation of southern tomb in Seobongchong(서봉총) and visited there in 1929. Seobongchong are 2 old tombs of Silla kingdom at Gyeongju, South Korea. But the excavation was processed by Japanese scholars because Korea was Japanese colony in 1920s. So, they named the tomb 'David chong'(David-tomb), but present Korean scholars call it 'Seobongchong nambun'(서봉총 남분, southern tomb in Seobongchong).

==Career==
David was a financier and the chairman of Sassoon, J. David and Co Ltd., in Bombay.

==Chinese ceramics==
After his marriage in 1920, David began to collect Chinese art, and to study the Chinese language. He first visited China in 1923, and became fascinated by Chinese ceramics, devoting most of the rest of his life to their study and collection. He joined the Oriental Ceramic Society in 1930 and then sponsored exhibitions in London. He translated the ''Ge Gu Yao Lun'', a fourteenth century [[Ming period]] manual by [[Cao Zhao]]. This was published as ''Chinese Connoisseurship: The Ko Ku Yao Lun, The Essential Criteria of Antiquities''. ([[Faber & Faber]], 1971).

The [[Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art]] is his collection of Chinese [[ceramics (art)|ceramics]] and related items in London. The Foundation's main purpose is to promote the study and teaching of [[Chinese art]] and culture. The Collection consists of some 1,700 pieces of [[Song Dynasty|Song]], [[Yuan Dynasty|Yuan]], [[Ming Dynasty|Ming]] and [[Qing]] ceramics, mostly porcelain, from the 10th century to the 18th, "high-quality Chinese-taste Song, Ming and Qing ceramics", as the British Museum puts it.<ref name=BM/> It concentrates on the ceramics made for the imperial court, and includes examples of the rare ''[[Ru ware|Ru]]'' and ''Guan'' wares and two important [[Yuan dynasty]] [[blue and white porcelain]] temple vases (the "[[David Vases]]") the oldest dated [[blue and white porcelain]] objects, from 1351 A.D.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2009/chinese_ceramics.aspx|title=British Museum Press release}}</ref>

It also holds a large library of Western and East Asian books related to Chinese art. In 1950 the collection was presented to the [[University of London]] and until 2007 was displayed in a house in [[Gordon Square]]. Since 2009 it has been shown in a separate gallery, Room 95, at the [[British Museum]], where it is on long-term loan. Percival had already donated several pieces to the British Museum.<ref name=BM/>

==Philately==
David built a collection of Chinese stamps and [[postal history]] that is thought to be one of the greatest ever created.<ref name=spink>[https://www.spink.com/files/catalogue/16012.pdf ''Meiso Mizuhara The exhibition collections: The Chinese customs post''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112083845/https://www.spink.com/files/catalogue/16012.pdf |date=12 November 2017 }} Hong Kong: Spink. pp. 7–8.</ref><ref>[https://issuu.com/spinkandson/docs/insider23?e=2874488/31538612 "Designs for the first Chinese stamps: Proofs and essays from the Meiso Mizuhara collection"] by Neill Granger in ''Spink Insider'', No. 23 (Winter 2015), pp. 66–67.</ref> The collection, which included material that David acquired from [[John A. Agnew (philatelist)|John A. Agnew]] (died 1939),<ref name=spink1514/> was sold by [[Robson Lowe]] between 1964 and 1975, with many items entering the collection of the Japanese philatelist [[Meiso Mizuhara]]. David joined the [[Royal Philatelic Society London]] in 1939<ref>"Philatelic Societies' Meetings", ''[[The London Philatelist]]'', Vol. XLVIII, No. 569 (May 1939), p. 178.</ref> and subsequently became a fellow of that society. Some of his China essays and proofs were displayed in New York in 1947.<ref>They were displayed by Winthrop S. Boggs at the New York Chapter of the E.P.S. meeting on 13 August 1947. "China Essays and Proofs from the Collection of Sir Percival David", in The Essay Proof Journal Oct 1947, vol.4, no. 4, p. 288.</ref>

==Honours and arms==
He was an officer of the [[Legion d'Honneur]]; [[Society of Antiquaries of London|F.S.A.]], F.R.A.I., F.R.S.A., Hon Advisor 1928–29 National Palace Museums (Beijing); Governor of [[School of Oriental and African Studies]] (SOAS), University of London; Director of the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1935-6.<ref name=BM/>

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==Death and legacy==
David died on 9 October 1964 after which the baronetcy became extinct.

Sir Percival and Lady David are commemorated at SOAS in the [[Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art|Percival David Foundation]] on Torrington Square and the Lady David Gallery on Gordon Square.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Price |first1=Katie |title=The founding and development of the History of Art and Archaeology Department |url=https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/centenarytimeline/2015/10/05/the-founding-and-development-of-the-history-of-art-and-archaeology-department/ |website=SOAS Centenary}}</ref>

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