British Museum Gets a Giant Gift

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 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 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 (US$1.27 billion) worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Percival David Foundation are to donate 1,
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 ‘highest value object donation in UK museum history’
The British Museum (BM) has boosted its Chinese art holdings after receiving a private collection of 1,700 ceramic items from the trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation. The museum described the gift as “the highest value object donation in UK museum history with the 1,700 pieces estimated at around £1bn”.
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 given £1bn of Chinese ceramics
The British Museum is to be given Chinese ceramics worth £1bn in what is believed to be the highest-value gift received by a UK museum. The addition of the items from the Sir Percival David Foundation will also make the museum's stock of the antiques one ...
British Museum gets £1 Billion donation -of Chinese ceramics.
The British Museum has received a historic gift: a private collection of Chinese ceramics valued at around £1 billion
British Museum Secures Historic Chinese Ceramics Donation
The British Museum has received a historic donation of 1,700 Chinese ceramics valued at around 1 billion pounds. Donated by the Percival David Foundation, this is the largest gift in the museum's history.
£1bn Chinese Ceramics Collection Donated To British Museum
The British Museum has been donated an extremely valuable collection of Chinese ceramics, worth a whopping £1 billion, making it the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum.
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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