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British Museum given Chinese ceramics collection worth £1bn

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.

Some of the donated items date from the third to 20th Century.

Museum director Dr Nicholas Cullinan said the objects would offer visitors and researchers “the incredible opportunity to study and enjoy the very best examples of Chinese craftsmanship anywhere in existence.”


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