Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest

Press Releases: Cases heard during 2006-07

23/05/06: Last chance to keep Michiel van Musscher's most exceptional painting in the United Kingdom 
23/05/06: Culture Minister defers export of archive of learned Norfolk cleric William Gunn 
23/05/06: Temporary export ban a bid to keep Turner watercolours in the UK
26/07/06: Culture Minister defers export of two outstanding Anglo-Saxon finds
21/09/06: Culture Minister defers export of a watercolour by JMW Turner, 'The Blue Rigi' 
19/10/06: Culture Minister Defers Export of Rare and Spectacular Eighteenth-Century Court Mantua 
13/11/06: Culture Minister defers export of an exquisite patchwork and applique coverlet, 1820
13/11/06: Culture Minister defers export of the archive of Mary Hamilton (1756-1816), courtier, diarist and Bluestocking
13/11/06: Culture Minister defers export of a painting by John Constable, 'Flatford Lock from the Mill House', c. 1814
28/11/06: Last chance to save cabinet containing maps used to teach George III's children
19/12/06: Golden opportunity to save rare winter crucifixion
25/01/07: Culture Minister bans export of 18th century bronze sculpture of Marsyas designed by leading baroque sculptor Pierre Legros the Younger
25/01/07: Culture Minister stops the unravelling of dress history by deferring export of striking 18th century waistcoat
21/02/07: Export bar placed on rare and beautiful Neolithic 'jadeite' axe-head with Dorset connection
03/04/07: Culture Minister offers last chance to save recently discovered early record of medieval Nottingham community
18/04/07: Clock is ticking to save 15th century Hours of the Passion illuminated manuscript
04/05/07: Culture Minister David Lammy places export bar on iconic 18th century flag from French Revolutionary War
21/05/07: Culture Minister defers export of a rare painting by Alonso Sanchez Coello