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來源于《圖書與藝術》版塊
Dresden’s Green Vault
德累斯頓綠穹珍寶館
Ocean’s Eight on the Elbe
易北河上的瞞天過海
BERLIN
柏林
Thieves make off with bejewelled treasures from a storied collection
小偷偷走了一個有傳奇色彩的收藏品中的珠寶
In the 18th century Augustus the Strong competed with Louis XIV, France’s “Sun King”, to assemble Europe’s most extravagant jewellery collection. The elector of Saxony, who ruled over Poland and Lithuania, probably triumphed in the end: he gathered multiple sets of exquisite artefacts, made of diamonds, rubies, sapphires and emeralds, a haul that was supplemented by his successors. The collection represents “a kind of world heritage”, reckons Dirk Syndram, director of the Green Vault treasury in Dresden, a baroque city on the Elbe, which houses all the gems.
18世紀，奧古斯都與法國的“太陽王”路易十四競爭，收集歐洲最奢華的珠寶。統治著波蘭和立陶宛的薩克森選帝者很可能在最后取得了勝利：他收集了多套精美的手工制品，由鉆石、紅寶石、藍寶石和祖母綠制成。德累斯頓是易北河上一座巴洛克風格的城市，所有的寶石都收藏在這里。
Or, it did until recently. In a swift predawn raid on November 25th at least two (presumably diminutive) thieves entered the Green Vault’s jewel room through a small hole they had made in the iron grille of a ground-floor window. They had apparently disabled the museum’s alarm system by setting fire to a nearby electrical-distribution hub. Inside, they smashed a glass showcase with an axe and grabbed roughly 100 pieces from three of the jewellery sets, including several diamond brooches, a string of pearls, a duelling sword with a diamond- encrusted hilt and the Star of the Polish White Eagle Order.
或者說，曾經是，現在不是。在11月25日拂曉前的一次突然襲擊中，至少有兩名(可能是身材矮小的)竊賊通過他們在一樓窗戶的鐵格柵上鑿出的一個小洞進入了綠穹珍寶館的珠寶室。他們在附近的一個配電中心放火，明顯是為了使博物館的警報系統失靈。在里面，他們用斧頭砸碎了一個玻璃櫥窗，從三套珠寶中搶了大約100件，包括幾枚鉆石胸針、一串珍珠、一把鑲有鉆石柄的決斗劍和波蘭白鷹勛章。
Security guards alerted the police, but by the time they arrived, the thieves had fled; the presumed getaway car was found burned out in a nearby underground garage. One of the collection’s greatest treasures, the 41-carat Dresden Green Diamond, is safely on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, for an exhibition about the splendour of European courts. But the missing pieces could be worth many millions of euros. “We are devastated to hear of this theft,” said Max Hollein, the Met’s director.
保安人員通知了警察，但當他們到達時，小偷已經逃走了。人們在附近的一個地下車庫發現了一輛被燒毀的汽車。這枚41克拉的德累斯頓綠鉆是藏品中最珍貴的珍寶之一，它被安全地借給了紐約大都會藝術博物館，用于一場關于歐洲宮廷輝煌的展覽。但丟失的碎片可能價值數百萬歐元。“聽到這個消息我們都很震驚，”大都會博物館館長馬克斯·霍林說。
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