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.



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Privatsammlung in Milliardenwert geht an das British Museum

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Hamburg

Germany

Private collection worth billions goes to the British Museum

Nearly 2,000 Chinese ceramics worth £1bn are to be donated to the institution by a charitable foundation.

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United Kingdom

British Museum given its most valuable gift ever with Chinese ceramics

The collection has been on loan to the museum since 2009 in the specially designed bilingual Room 95.

The Independent

Evgeny Lebedev

London

Greater London

England

British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history with £1bn collection

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. The central London museum announced late on Wednesday that the Trustees of The Sir Percival David Foundation had gifted the collection permanently to go on public display. David, who died in 1964, was a British businessman and Sinophile who collected ceramics from Eu…

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Gautam Adani

New Delhi

Delhi Division

Delhi

India

Chinese Ceramics Worth 1 Billion Euro Donated To British Museum

The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year history.

Warner Bros. Discovery

Atlanta

Fulton County

Georgia

United States

British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion

Museum to receive 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics, donated by the Percival David Foundation.

South China Morning Post

Alibaba Group

Hong Kong

British Museum to receive donation of Chinese ceramics worth US$1.27 billion

The British Museum is to receive the highest-value gift in UK museum history as it acquires £1 billion worth of Chinese ceramics.

Shropshire Star

MNA Media

Ketley

Shropshire

Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum

Evening Standard

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Geraldine Mary Harmsworth

Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere

Carron Greig

British Museum gifted huge collection of Chinese ceramics worth £1billion

A famous collection of Chinese ceramics was donated to the institution.

Egy híres kínai kerámiagyűjteményt ajándékoztak az intézménynek.

Hihetetlen értékű adományt kapott a British Museum

Magyar Nemzet

Budapest

Hungary

The British Museum received an incredible donation

A British merchant collected porcelain for decades. He owned 1,700 precious pieces, including two of the most famous porcelain vases in the world. The British Museum in London is now receiving all of this – as a gift.

Ein britischer Kaufmann sammelte Porzellan, jahrzehntelang. In seinem Besitz waren 1700 Preziosen, darunter zwei der berühmtesten Porzellanvasen der Welt. Das alles bekommt nun das British Museum in London – geschenkt.

Porzellan aus China in Milliardenwert: Das British Museum bekommt das größte Geschenk

Spiegel

Porcelain from China worth billions: The British Museum receives the largest gift

The official donation of the entire Sir Percival David Foundation is worth an estimated £1 billion.

British Museum given its most valuable gift ever

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