The Collection Part I
Gems of the Green Vault in Dresden
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Gems of the Green Vault in Dresden
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by Dirk Syndram
“The Green Vault” is the nickname for the historic treasury for the royalty of the German state of Saxony—first developed as a new wing of Dresden Castle in the 16th century, redesigned as a museum in the 18th century, nearly destroyed by war in the 20th, and restored and expanded in the 21st. Throughout it all, though, what may be the largest treasure collection in all of Europe has been sustained. And what a treasure! Bejeweled gold chalices, pitchers carved from rock crystal, a goblet made from a nautilus shell mounted on gilded silver…the list goes on and on. (To give you an idea, the Green Vault made the news recently when it was broken into in November of 2019 and three sets of 18th-century royal jewelry were stolen, with an estimated combined value of 1.1 billion dollars.) Gems of the Green Vault in Dresden is an amply-illustrated catalogue written and compiled by the museum’s director at the time the most recent restoration and expansion was about to take off. It includes pictures of the historic exhibition rooms, which were treasures in their own right, before they were virtually destroyed by bombing in World War II. After that, the objects appear in chronological order, beginning with an ivory tablet from the first half of the tenth century and ending with a table made of inlaid semi-precious stones from the mid-18th century. Most of the photographs illustrating the objects are in color; all have detailed but not over-bearing descriptions.
Published in 2000 by Koehler und Amelang, Munich
ISBN: 3733802357
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Fine
Comments: Our copy is new and unused though the dust jacket shows a little wear along the edges. Includes a bit of ephemeral: a small brochure of photographs comparing sites in Dresden as they appeared in 1945 with how they appear today. 176 p.: ill; 26 cm.
Seller Inventory #: 0000225
“The Green Vault” is the nickname for the historic treasury for the royalty of the German state of Saxony—first developed as a new wing of Dresden Castle in the 16th century, redesigned as a museum in the 18th century, nearly destroyed by war in the 20th, and restored and expanded in the 21st. Throughout it all, though, what may be the largest treasure collection in all of Europe has been sustained. And what a treasure! Bejeweled gold chalices, pitchers carved from rock crystal, a goblet made from a nautilus shell mounted on gilded silver…the list goes on and on. (To give you an idea, the Green Vault made the news recently when it was broken into in November of 2019 and three sets of 18th-century royal jewelry were stolen, with an estimated combined value of 1.1 billion dollars.) Gems of the Green Vault in Dresden is an amply-illustrated catalogue written and compiled by the museum’s director at the time the most recent restoration and expansion was about to take off. It includes pictures of the historic exhibition rooms, which were treasures in their own right, before they were virtually destroyed by bombing in World War II. After that, the objects appear in chronological order, beginning with an ivory tablet from the first half of the tenth century and ending with a table made of inlaid semi-precious stones from the mid-18th century. Most of the photographs illustrating the objects are in color; all have detailed but not over-bearing descriptions.
Published in 2000 by Koehler und Amelang, Munich
ISBN: 3733802357
Binding: Hardback
Condition: New
Dust Jacket included. Condition of Dust Jacket: Fine
Comments: Our copy is new and unused though the dust jacket shows a little wear along the edges. Includes a bit of ephemeral: a small brochure of photographs comparing sites in Dresden as they appeared in 1945 with how they appear today. 176 p.: ill; 26 cm.
Seller Inventory #: 0000225