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Mr. Faulds
To ask the Minister for the Arts if he will list the items for which the issuing of export licences was withheld on the recommendation of the reviewing committee on the export of works of art during the half-year ended 31 December 1991, specifying in each case the valuation and whether an item was eventually exported
Description of item | Valuation £ | outcome |
The Bromley Davenport Altarpiece, by Taddeo Gaddi | 2,011,500.00 | Export licence granted |
A documentary urbino dish of Cardinal's hat form | 189,975.00 | Export licence granted |
A drawing, 'A wooded landscape with low hills: a view of the Tiber',by Nicholas Poussin | 156,450.00 | Purchased jointly by the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam museums |
A drawing, 'A wooded landscape with a River God gathering fruit', by Nicholas Poussin | 134, 100.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'St. George and the Dragon', by Francesco Di Rossi il Salviati | 104,97500 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'The head of the Oriental in profile to the left', by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione | 201,15000 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'The head of a women looking up', by Guido Reni | 145,27500 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'A reclining nude women lifting a curtain',' by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri il Guercino | 106,162–50 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'A wooded upland landscape with figures outside the gate of a castle', by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri il Guercino | 61,462–25 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'Saint Ivo intervening on behalf of the poor, Christ with Saint Jerome and three saints above', by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona | 72,637–50 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'A wooded river landscape with fishermen in a boat', by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona | 72,637–50 | Export licence refused |
A drawing, 'A wooded rover landscape with cascades and three men dragging a net', by Pietro Berrettini da Cortona | 268,200.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'The Sacrifice of Isaac' by Giovanni Battista Gaulli il Baciccio | 111,750.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'Two women and a baby with a cat', by Francessco Vanni | 78,225.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'An allegory of the labours of Hercules', by Ciro Fern | 35,760.00 | Purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum |
A drawing, 'Design for a tomb slab of Cardinal Carlo Emanuele Pio Da Carpi', by Gian Lorenzo Bermini | 40,230.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'A philosopher pointing to the ground, a youth beside him', by Salvatore Rosa | 50,287–50 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'The head of a young boy looking up to the left', by Jan Cossiers | 44,700.00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'The adoration of the shepherds', by Jusepe de Ribera | 83,812–50 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
A drawing, 'A squirrel', by Giovanni da Udine | 85,000–00 | Decision deferred until after 15 March 1992 |
An inlaid bronze pyxis | 33,525–00 | Purchased by the British Museum Society |
The Clarence Book of Hours | 510,000.00 | Export licence granted |
A French 19th Century silvered and bronze mirror, 1867, by Barbedienne | 110,00000 | Decision deferred until after 16 April 1992 |
A portrait of Pope Clement VII by Sebastiano del Piombo | 6,314,581–00 | Decision deferred until after 16 February 1992 |
The 'Middleham Ring' | 45,980–00 | Decision deferred until after 16 April 1992 |
Two paintings of the allegorical tombs of Cadogan and Godolphin by Francesco Monti, Pietro Paltronieri and Nunzio Ferraiuoli | 450,000.00 | Decision deferred until after 16 February 1992 |
Mr. Renton
The information is as follows:
Description of item | Valuation £ | outcome |
A George III silver-gilt dinner service, designed by Robert Adam | 251,445.00 | Decision deferred until after 16 April 1992 |