Porcelain Nymph Returns to Dresden From Ohio After 70 Years

A porcelain sea nymph worth about $1 million returns home to the German city of Dresden today, more than 70 years after it disappeared from a box in a castle where it was kept for safekeeping during World War II.

The sea nymph, or Nereid, is a sweetmeat holder and the centerpiece of an elaborate swan table service comprising about 3,000 items made for Heinrich von Bruehl, prime minister of the 18th-century Saxon Elector and King of Poland, Augustus III.