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

Though it has been eight years since he delivered the Budget, George Osborne has not lost his ability to spring a rhetorical ...

The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David ...

The matching pair of Ming dynasty Chinese 'fish jars' were made in the ... It is not known how or when, but the twin 18ins tall vases ended up being owned by a German family.

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...

The blue-glazed, silver and gilt vase was created for the court of the Qianlong Emperor An "extremely rare" 18th Century Chinese vase bought in the 1980s for a few hundred pounds and kept in a kit ...

Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation to donate 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics to the London museum Vases dating back to the Yuan dynasty are part of the Sir Percival David Collection ...

Items in the collection date from the third to 20th Century The British Museum is to be given Chinese ceramics worth £1bn in what ... in the collection include vases from 1351 which ...

So how can a collection of porcelain be worth such a mind-boggling ... known as a scholar and collector of Chinese ceramics The 14th-century David vases were once described by Perry as the ...

The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion ... the blue-and-white “David vases” from 1351, a tiny porcelain ...