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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1252542, member: 5833&quot;]The newspaper account mentions that some treasures, including the green diamond, are currently on loan to the Met.&nbsp; Since I was thinking of going there today, checked &amp; see the exhibition starts today:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2019/making-marvels" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2019/making-marvels" rel="nofollow">https://www.metmuseum.org/press/exhibitions/2019/making-marvels</a></p><p><br /></p><p>There is no photo of the diamond, but here&#039;s some description of items on display:</p><p><br /></p><p>Among the many exceptional loans will be silver furniture from the Esterházy Treasury; the largest flawless natural green diamond in the world, weighing 41 carats and in its original 18th-century setting; the alchemistic table bell of Emperor Rudolf II; a large wire-drawing bench made for Elector Augustus of Saxony; a rare example of an early equation clock by Jost Bürgi; and a reconstruction of a late 18th-century semi-automaton chess player, known as “The Turk,” that once famously caught Napoleon Bonaparte cheating.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike other members of his department, &amp; unlike the folks at the Green Vault, the curator of the exhibition was not gracious when I contacted him, even though the message was about an item I own that he had expressed an interest in after seeing it in a message sent to one of his colleagues.&nbsp; He did not reply at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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