Sir Percival David, a Bombay-born British financier who is best known as a scholar and collector of Chinese ceramics The 14th ...
With fees added on the winning bidder, an Asian private collector, paid £9.7m for the vases. A spokesperson ... breakthrough in the possibilities of porcelain production, when the craftsmen ...
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...
In China’s porcelain capital of Jingdezhen, ceramics have been woven into the very fabric of the city for centuries. At its ...
The British Museum has received a private collection of Chinese ceramics estimated at approximately £1 billion GBP ($1.27 ...
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...
The British Museum said on Wednesday it would receive 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics worth around 1 billion ...
24 x 10 in. (61 x 25.4 cm.) ...
The British Museum has received a donation of Chinese treasures worth more than $1 billion from the Sir Percival David ...
11 x 8 in. (27.9 x 20.3 cm.) ...
BEIJING/HONG KONG, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A 22-year-old Chinese woman's account of how she was lured into the country's illegal surrogacy industry before suffering a miscarriage went viral on Chinese ...