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

Press Releases: Cases heard during 2007-08

24/08/07: Culture Minister defers export of rare silver-mounted long-gun
28/08/07: Culture Minister defers export of Mrs Hutton Rawlinson's 'very elegant mahogany bookcase' purchased from Gillows of Lancaster on 18 July 1772
14/09/07: Rubens sketch export application deferred
17/10/07: Culture Minister defers export of a portrait of a controversial politician mourning his wife
18/10/07: Export bar placed on works by 18th Century master bronze caster Pietro Cipriani
18/10/07: Last chance to keep marble bust of Virgin Annunciate by Domenico Guidi
09/11/07: Let battle commence to keep portrait of British military hero in UK
12/11/07: Export bar gives last chance to keep Turner's Lake of Lucerne in UK
13/11/07: Last chance to save beautiful devotional painting by Domenico Zampieri
14/11/07: Hope to save ' outstandingly significant' Mary Queen of Scots execution warrant
15/11/07: Earliest extensive record of UK lead trade given export ban
04/12/07: Time ticks on rescue of rare 14th century pocket astrolabe quadrant
20/02/08: Riding to rescue vital record of English medieval knights
08/04/08: Recently-reunited furniture friends now face loss overseas
24/04/08: Culture Minister defers export of rare portrait of pioneering maritime chartmaker