Dresden Green Diamond

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Dresden Green
The diamond in its hat clasp ornament
Weight41 carats (8.2 g)
ColorNatural green
Country of origin India
DiscoveredBefore 1722
Glass copy of the Dresden Green

The Dresden Green Diamond, also known as the Dresden Green, is a 41-

mines of India.[1]
The Dresden Green is a rare
Type IIa, with a clarity of VS1 and it is said to be potentially internally flawless, if slightly recut.[2]

It is named after

jewel theft of 25 November.[5]

History

The Dresden Green Diamond has a historical record dating back to 1722, when a London news-sheet carried an article about it in its 25 October-27th edition.[6] It was acquired by Augustus III of Poland from a Dutch merchant in 1742 at the Leipzig Fair.[6] In 1768, the diamond was incorporated into an extremely valuable hat ornament, surrounded by two large and 411 medium-sized and small diamonds.[7] This is the setting that the Dresden Green still appears in today.

In 2000, American jewelry firm

Washington, DC, United States, where it was displayed in the Harry Winston pavilion next to the largest blue diamond in the world, the Hope Diamond
.

In 2019, the Dresden Green Diamond narrowly escaped being stolen in the Dresden Green Vault burglary, due to it being loaned to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Color

The stone's unique apple green color is due to natural exposure to radioactive materials, as the irradiation of diamonds can produce changes in color. The Dresden Green Diamond has been used to compare natural versus lab-produced green diamonds — it is hoped that it can be used to devise a test to differentiate between naturally green diamonds, which are quite rare, and lab-produced ones.

In popular culture

The plot of Nicolas Freeling's 1966 novel The Dresden Green concerns an imaginary theft of the Dresden Green diamond and attempts to recover it.[8]

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ^ "Green Diamonds". israelidiamond.co.il.
  2. ^ "The Dresden Green Diamond". famousdiamonds.tripod.com.
  3. ^ "Green diamond to act as cultural ambassador for Dresden in New York - Loans from Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden to feature in exhibition at Metropolitan Museum of Art". Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Archived copy". www.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 25 November 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. ^ "Dresden Green Vault robbery: Priceless diamonds stolen". BBC World News. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  6. ^ a b Edwin W. Streeter (1898). Dresden Green Diamond, in "The Great Diamonds of the World". George Bell & Sons. Archived from the original on 9 February 2007. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  7. ISBN 978-3-86502-150-2
    , pp. 166-173 (in German)
  8. ISBN 978-0-14-002902-4

External links

Media related to Dresden Green Diamond at Wikimedia Commons

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