British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
The 1,700 pieces of world-renowned Chinese ceramics constitute the largest donation in the British Museum’s nearly 300-year ...
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Oracle bones: 3,250-year-old engraved bones and tortoise shells from ancient China were used to foretell the future
Oracle bones were often made from tortoise shells, as in this photograph, and from the shoulder blades of oxen. According to archaeologists, a fortune teller would carve a question into the bone with ...
The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build ...
British Museum receives largest donation in its history with Chinese ceramics collection
The donation makes the museum's Chinese ceramics collection the largest outside China, with 10,000 items displayed in a ...