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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4399828, member: 5833"]I saw this & wrote to Holly Trusted, with whom I'd had previous contact over the Ronca Psyche/Iris, showing her Nero & asking if they were sure about the date & country of origin of their piece. I only presented my evidence. I did not represent Nero as definitely being by Schwarzeburger, nor did I suggest she do anything other than reconsider whether their guy might also be German & of the same period. I did not expect she would attribute their emperor to S'burger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Holly seems like a lovely woman & now appears to be semi-retired, but as senior curator of sculpture she had broad responsibilities & no doubt was just this side of frazzled much of the time. With both cameos she enthusiastically accepted what I had to say, making changes to their entries, without really removing the previous info. I'm afraid I've probably caused the description of this piece to be mangled for all time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 4399828, member: 5833"]I saw this & wrote to Holly Trusted, with whom I'd had previous contact over the Ronca Psyche/Iris, showing her Nero & asking if they were sure about the date & country of origin of their piece. I only presented my evidence. I did not represent Nero as definitely being by Schwarzeburger, nor did I suggest she do anything other than reconsider whether their guy might also be German & of the same period. I did not expect she would attribute their emperor to S'burger. Holly seems like a lovely woman & now appears to be semi-retired, but as senior curator of sculpture she had broad responsibilities & no doubt was just this side of frazzled much of the time. With both cameos she enthusiastically accepted what I had to say, making changes to their entries, without really removing the previous info. I'm afraid I've probably caused the description of this piece to be mangled for all time.[/QUOTE]
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