British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history

British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn Chinese pottery collection
Chinese pottery worth £1 billion will be gifted to the British Museum – the most valuable gift in UK history. The museum, in Bloomsbury, London, will receive 1,700 pieces from the trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation.
The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.
British Museum to receive hefty donation of world-renowned Chinese ceramics
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion pounds ($1.27 billion), in the largest donation in its nearly 300-year history.
British Museum Receives $1.2 B. Worth of Chinese Ceramics, the Largest Gift in its History
The British Museum has been gifted one of the world's most prodigious collections of Chinese ceramics, worth £1 billion ($1.27 billion), in what is likely the highest-value donation of art ever received by a UK museum.
British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection
The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a dedicated gallery.
British Museum Receives Donation Worth $1.2 Billion—the Largest Gift in U.K. Museum History
The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David Foundation.
British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection
The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,700 pieces to the London museum, based in the city’s Bloomsbury area.
British Museum given its most valuable gift ever
The British Museum is to receive what is believed to be the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum with the acquisition of £1bn worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation,
British Museum Receives Its Most Valuable Gift Ever
The British Museum announced its acquisition of the Sir Percival David Foundation’s world-famous private collection of Chinese ceramics. The collective value of the 1,700 objects in the collection is estimated at £1 billion ($1.
British Museum accepts highest-value donation in UK museum history
The official donation of the entire Sir Percival David Foundation is worth an estimated £1 billion. View on euronews
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