Optimism (ctd.)
April 4 2013
Picture: Sotheby's
The government has placed a temporary export ban on the Raphael drawing Head of an Apostle, sold from Chatsworth last year. It has to be done, I suppose, but if a UK museum manages to come up with the necessary £29.7m, I'll eat my trousers. Under our current export system, the more expensive an item is, the more likely it is to leave the country.
The 15th Century manuscript sold by Chatsworth in the same sale, for £3.8m, has also been temporarily blocked.
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