Sale of The Warwick Vase
After it was sold in London in 1978 and purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Warwick Vase was declared an object of national importance, and an export license was delayed. Matching funds were raised, and, as it was not of sufficient archaeological value for the British Museum, it found a sympathetic home at the Burrell Collection, Glasgow.
The fullest discussion of the Warwick Vase is in three articles by N.M. Penzer, in Apollo 62 (1955:183ff) and 63 (1956:18ff, 71ff).
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