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

Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.

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.

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Chinese pottery worth £1 billion will be gifted to the British Museum – the most valuable gift in UK history. The museum, in Bloomsbury, London, will receive 1,700 pieces from the trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation.

The British Museum is to receive what is believed to be the highest-value gift ever received by a UK museum with the acquisition of £1bn worth of Chinese ceramics. Trustees of the Sir Percival David Foundation, which owns the works, are to donate 1,700 pieces following a 15-year loan to the London museum.

A 1,700-piece private collection of Chinese ceramics with an estimated value of 1 billion euro ($1.27 billion) has been donated to the British Museum -- a record for any UK institution.

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

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 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.