British Museum, Chinese Ceramics

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 to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection
British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection - The collection has been on loan to the museum since 2009 in the specially designed bilingual Room 95.
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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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 ...
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British Museum gifted huge collection of Chinese ceramics worth staggering £1billion
Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum Vases ...
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British Museum Secures Record £1bn Donation Of Chinese Ceramics
A 1,700-piece private collection of Chinese ceramics with an estimated value of £1 billion ($1.27 billion) has been donated to the British Museum -- a record for any UK institution.
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British Museum is the most-visited UK attraction again
The British Museum was the UK's most-visited attraction ... The second most-visited attraction was London's Natural History Museum. Figures showed the South Kensington attraction had its ...
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Bermudian scientist retires from London museum
A Bermudian scientist who dedicated most of her life to studying fossils has been celebrated after she stepped down from the Natural History Museum in London. Jill Darrell took centre stage when ...