The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a dedicated gallery.

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

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.

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.

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.

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