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Pictured: Katharine Butler.
The daughter of a late government diplomat has salvaged part of his lost Chinese porcelain collection and is displaying them in a private home museum.
Sir Michael Butler, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, spent 50 years putting together a remarkable £8m trove of 17th century Asian ceramics, considered one of the finest in the world, which he left to his four children when he died in 2013.
But a row between the siblings over whether the collection should be kept together led to a high-profile High Court case in 2016, which ruled it be split up between them.
The home museum, near Blandford, Dorset, was closed for seven years but is reopening after Katharine acquired some of her father's valuable antiques, as well as other examples from the market.
Pic: KatharineButler/BNPS
Pictured: Katharine Butler.
The daughter of a late government diplomat has salvaged part of his lost Chinese porcelain collection and is displaying them in a private home museum.
Sir Michael Butler, a former aide to Margaret Thatcher, spent 50 years putting together a remarkable £8m trove of 17th century Asian ceramics, considered one of the finest in the world, which he left to his four children when he died in 2013.
But a row between the siblings over whether the collection should be kept together led to a high-profile High Court case in 2016, which ruled it be split up between them.
The home museum, near Blandford, Dorset, was closed for seven years but is reopening after Katharine acquired some of her father's valuable antiques, as well as other examples from the market.
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