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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on an important George II silver-gilt ewer and basin, made by George Wickes.
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Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the only known surviving silver ewer and basin by Christian van Vianen.
Objects made with “extraordinary technical skill” could be exported.
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