She recalled seeing a sword from an English collection that had been made with iron from a meteorite.

"This is a very important painting and there is not a single small Holbein portrait in an English collection," he added.

Students benefit from modern facilities, such as the only uncensored, open-stacks library in China, offering both English and Chinese collections.

National Museums Liverpool is the only English national collection based wholly outside London.

The original Aston belongs today to a private English collection.

Among the unexpected objects are some 254 18th- and 19th-century knives, forks and spoons from an English collection, many with porcelain handles.

Museum curators and dealers described the cabinet before the sale as one of the most important pieces of furniture in an English private collection.

He found the pieces in an English private collection.

It is considered British property because it has been in a private English collection for the last 150 years.

Many of his best works are to be found in English private collections.