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Article: Dresden can add recovery to its treasures
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 30, 2008
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DRESDEN, Germany - By the standards of this house, the treasure
before me is modest: a finely hammered gold goblet with four inlaid
thumb-size sapphires, and a few rubies and pearls. It belonged to
Ivan the Terrible, who perhaps quaffed from it after conquering
Siberia in the late 1500s.
The chalice has a warm, burnished glow. No doubt that on the
black market, it would bring enough to buy a middling hedge fund.
But in Dresden's legendary Green Vault, the treasure house of 18th-
century Saxon monarch August the Strong, the adorned solid gold
drinking vessel is remarkable in its relative simplicity compared
with the jewels, gems, trinkets, and heirlooms here in such splendor
and number.
The ...
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