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Sir Patrick Cormack
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 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 30 June, specifying in each case the valuation and whether an item was exported or retained, with particulars in the latter event of the acquiring institutions; and if he will list any items for which licences have been withheld but the final disposal of which is not yet decided, specifying in each case (a) the valuation and (b) the relevant time limit. [8977]
Mr. Fisher
The information is as follows:
| Description of item | Valuation £ | Outcome |
| A painting Madonna and Child with Saints with a Distant Landscape by Annibale Carracci (1560–1609) | 197,325 | No offer made, so export licence was issued |
| A mother-of-pearl casket by Pierre Mangot, c. 1532 | 3,000,000 | No offer made, so export licence was issued |
| An altar-piece by Giuliano da Rimini, c. 1307–23 | 560,512.50 | No offer made, so export licence was issued |
| A pair of late eighteenth-or early nineteenth-century Anglo—Indian ivory armchairs | 138,275 | Owner declined to accept matching offer, so export licence was refused |
| A pair of French silver wine-coolers, c. 1766–67 | 297,605.62 | Owner declined to accept matching offer, so export licence was refused |
| A painting Descent into Limbo by Lelio Orsi (c. 1511–87) | 595,000 | Originally deferred, but subsequently discovered to have been imported within last 50 years, so export licence was issued |
| Description of item | Valuation £ | Outcome |
| A Venetian bronze andiron attributed to Niccolò Roccatagliata, c. 1600 | 77,752.50 | Acquired by the National Galleries of Scotland |
| A gold box by G. M. Moser, c. 1760 | 314,171.15 | Acquired by the Royal Museum of Scotland |
| A Neolithic stone ball | 8,000 | Acquired by Aberdeend Museum |
| A painting Cup of Water and a Rose by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1627–30 | 305,997.10 | Acquired by the National Gallery |
| A painting Eine kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning, 1943 | 156,250 | Deferred until after 8 August 1997 |
| A painting After Rain by Alexander Cozens (c. 1717–86) | 437,587.50 | Deferred until after 8 August 1997 |
| A sword of honour presented to the Earl of Northesk (1758–1831) | 74,400 | Deferred until after 8 August 1997 |
| Medals presented to the Earl of Northesk (1758–1831) | 107,925 | Deferred until after 8 August1997 |
| A seventeenth-century gold signet ring | 21,172.50 | Deferred until after 11 September 1997 |
| A painting Landscape with a Calm by Nicolas Poussin, 1651 | 16,000,000 | Deferred until after 18 October 1997 |
| A ewer and basin from St. Martin in the Fields, c. 1720 | 850,000 | Deferred until after 13 November 1997 |