Sir John Addis KCMG was a British diplomat, ambassador to Laos, the Philippines and China, and a collector of Ming porcelain which he gave to the British Museum.
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world.
Aerial view of the British Museum in 2015
Sir Hans Sloane
Montagu House, c. 1715
Entrance ticket to the British Museum, London 3 March 1790