Culture Minister, David Lammy, has placed a temporary export bar on a rare and lavish court mantua and petticoat of silver-brocaded ivory silk, believed to date from the mid 1760s. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the mantua and petticoat in the United Kingdom.

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