Saxon white diamond

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As Saxon White diamond because of its size and its lack of color, a nearly 50 will  carat heavy diamond called, who was in Saxon owned since 1728th The gemstone, also known as the Saxon white or Dresden white , was incorporated into the epaulette of the brilliant set. This epaulette was stolen from the jewel room of the historic Green Vault on November 25, 2019, along with other pieces of jewelery during the Dresden jewel theft .

History and Gemmological Consideration

The gemstone was bought by August the Strong in February 1728 from a Hamburg jeweler. The goldsmith André Jacques Pallard made a jewel of the Order of the Golden Fleece on behalf of August's son and successor Friedrich August II in early 1746 . In addition to the Saxon white, the better-known Dresden Green Diamond was used in this. In December 1768, the Prague jeweler Franz Michael Diespach dismantled Pallard's work because the young Elector Friedrich August III. had not been accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece and used a part for the epaulette. The section with the Saxon White Diamond, along with other parts of the diamond jewelry, was pledged to borrow, as the Dresden court was forced to make a contribution to Prussia after its defeat in the Seven Years War . When the pledged treasures became available again, Christian August Globig brought the epaulette into the form in which it could be seen in the jewelery room of the Historisches Grünes Gewölbe until November 24, 2019 . In the event of a burglary on November 25, 2019, the epaulette from the brilliant set with the Saxon white was stolen, along with other precious items.

Since Pallard worked the diamond into the fleece in 1746, there was no longer any way of precisely measuring the weight of the unmounted diamond. Therefore, there are slightly different weights of 49.71 ct and 49.84 ct.

The mineralogist Siegfried Rösch examined the diamonds of the Green Vault in April 1925 and later described the Saxon White Diamond as follows:

"[...]; The cut of the rectangular brilliant (49.71 carat) [...] is also remarkable. A blunt four-sided pyramid is placed on the octagonal table of the fairly flat stone, which has a good effect [...]. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dirk Syndram: The jewels of the kings . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-422-06589-X , p. 151.
  2. ↑ a b Dirk Syndram: The jewels of the kings . Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2006, ISBN 3-422-06589-X , p. 159.
  3. ↑ Burglary into the jewel room on November 25, 2019. In: Website of the Dresden State Art Collections . March 5, 2020, accessed April 26, 2020 .
  4. ^ A b Siegfried Rösch: The diamonds of the Green Vault in Dresden . In: Deutsche Goldschmiede-Zeitung . No. 11, 1926, p. 114.

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