History of loss: Most of the so-called Dessau silver treasure was stored in bank vaults in Ballenstedt (District Savings Bank, Allgemeine Deutsche Kreditbank and Ascherlebener Bank). The vaults were inspected by the Soviet occupation forces in 1945 and probably transported to the former USSR afterwards. It is currently unknown whether American occupying forces had previously inspected or taken the safes or their contents. Listed and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue ‘Deutsches Barock und Rokoko’ Darmstadt 1914 by Georg Biermann Leipzig 1914 under no. 581.
