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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 768430, member: 5833&quot;]This has to have gone on, but of course is another facet of the trade that is not much officially acknowledged.&nbsp; Giovanna Di Rosa writes about it here in connection with cameos signed G. Noto:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://antiquecameos.net/cameos/paris-and-helen-by-giovanni-noto-944010624" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://antiquecameos.net/cameos/paris-and-helen-by-giovanni-noto-944010624" rel="nofollow">https://antiquecameos.net/cameos/paris-and-helen-by-giovanni-noto-944010624</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I sometimes see pieces where I think not all parts demonstrate equal skill &amp; have wondered whether some of it is apprentice work.&nbsp; Sometimes it has been recorded, when a student has become as prominent as the master, who has studied with whom, such as Michelini with Girometti.&nbsp; Gifted young engravers, such as Pistrucci, were likely to have set up on their own when their work was being signed by a less accomplished master.&nbsp; There have been families - Pichler, Saulini, Verge (maybe Lamant) - in which older members trained younger, presumably doing some work together when the younger became good enough.&nbsp; I have one of those hardstone noblewoman type pieces with a whole assortment of initials &amp; numbers on the back, nearly all of them crossed out, which I take to be evidence of a workshop process involving a number of artisans in addition to a master.</p><p><br /></p><p>When someone&#039;s work never attained a very high degree of skill, e.g., &#039;Silz&#039;/Schmoll, it seems unlikely they were running a whole workshop.&nbsp; Also, Schmoll &amp; many others, Michelini is again an example, cut cameos in addition to running a shop where an assortment of things were sold, limiting how much time &amp; effort they could devote to producing cameos &amp; perfecting their skills.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t imagine putting my name on this if I had cut it, much less if I had not:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]190324[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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