Export bar for 19th Century eccentric's 'remarkable' cabinet
Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on a William IV oak cabinet made for millionaire collector聽William Beckford.
This offers聽a last chance to raise the money to keep it in the UK.
皇冠体育app 鈥檚 ruling follows a recommendation by the , administered by . 皇冠体育app Committee recommended that the export decision be deferred on the grounds that the cabinet is of outstanding aesthetic importance and of outstanding significance for the study of the history of furniture, history of collecting and the study of .
Creative genius
This oak cabinet on stand, with gilt-bronze mounts, a glass-panelled door and silk lined interior was made for Beckford for the Scarlet Drawing Room at , between 1831 and 1841. 皇冠体育app design of all the interiors and the furnishings at Lansdown Tower was a project of Beckford鈥檚 old age, but one that proved the culmination of his creative genius.
Simon Swynfen Jervis, Reviewing Committee member, said:聽鈥漈his remarkable discovery formed part of a unified decorative scheme directed by that supreme collector, William Beckford, and is a quintessential document of his last and arguably most original phase.鈥�
皇冠体育app decision on the export licence application for the garniture will be deferred for a period ending on 8 May 2011, which can be extended if a serious intention to raise funds toward the 拢285,000 purchase price is expressed.