After 97 years, one of the showpieces of the once electoral-royal treasury of August the Strong (1670-1733) is back in Dresden.
The Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation bought the legendary Golden Egg from private ownership and left it to the State Art Collections (SKD) on permanent loan to the Green Vault.
"It's a small miracle, a real stroke of luck," said its former director Dirk Syndram at the presentation of the "original surprise egg" on Monday.
Dresden - It was bought at the Leipzig Easter Fair in 1705, went to the Wettins as part of the compensation for the princes in 1924 and then entered the art trade.
In the almost five centimeter large golden egg there is a hen and in this a crown with six diamond-set temples - two belong to a removable ring with a one-carat rose cut as well as smaller gemstones. The tip of the ice also hides a secret: perfume could be hidden under a semicircular lid.
“It's a very important object,” said Marius Winzeler, the museum's new director.
The egg was one of the pieces used to set up the Treasury Museum in 1924.
It can now be seen dismantled in the New Green Vault.
Syndram had been looking for the egg for 25 years.
In March, Thomas Färber, Geneva art dealer and member of the Association of Friends of the Green Vault, informed the museum about the offer from Swiss private collections.
"You have to act in such a case," said Martin Hoernes, Secretary General of the Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, which took the "lower six-figure sum" in hand.
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There are still two known eggs of this type around the world. "One is owned by the Danish Queen, the other is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna," said Syndram.
Two more are only documented in the archives.
Who made the Dresden egg is unclear, how its whereabouts since 1924. His return, however, shows that something lost can come back.
"And that gives hope," said Syndram, during whose tenure the spectacular jewel theft fell from the Green Vault.
Two men broke into the famous museum on November 25, 2019, punched holes in a display case with an ax and tore out pieces of jewelry from the 17th and 18th centuries that were attached to it.
So far there is no trace of the prey.
The investigators are convinced that the coup is on the account of the Berlin Remmo clan.
Six young men from the extended family of Arab origin are in custody.
dpa
