British Museum to receive highest-value gift in UK history

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
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 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 of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year history.
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 of the most important outside of the Chinese-speaking world.
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 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.
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.
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