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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4533988, member: 5833&quot;]Thanks for this.&nbsp; When I first began to look into my own Talani, the Walters Josephine, the 2 cameos in the British Museum &amp; the 2 owned by U. Penn. were what I was able to find.&nbsp; I sent out inquiries to the Walters &amp; to Penn, knowing they could not authenticate, but asking if there was anything about mine that signalled an obvious fake.&nbsp; Both were kind enough to reply that there was no reason to think mine was not genuine.&nbsp; (The argument that has nothing to do with the physical properties of the piece is that if you were going to forge a signature to enhance value, hers is not the name you would pick.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I had only the Walters&#039; B&amp;W photo, so glad to see her in color.*&nbsp; She looks much better in your pic; theirs flattens the work.</p><p><br /></p><p>You will have seen the signage, but for others who might read this, the amethyst intaglio is one of the Poniatowski gems.&nbsp; It depicts Mercury &amp; the Amazon Myrto, and is signed with the pseudonym Apollonides.&nbsp; You can learn a bit more here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D5D5D105-4571-4AD8-B409-F80897789D75" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D5D5D105-4571-4AD8-B409-F80897789D75" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D5D5D105-4571-4AD8-B409-F80897789D75</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The carnelian looks like it would have made a good seal for a lady&#039;s letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wonder if the cabinet of impressions contains everything Tassie had to offer at the time it was made.&nbsp; Looks to have 60 or 61 drawers (the letter J is not used) with 50 or more impressions in each, so that is certainly the bulk of them.&nbsp; Some of the collection is armorials.&nbsp; Maybe most people wouldn&#039;t be interested in most of those.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lucky you.&nbsp; Would love to see the Walters Museum.&nbsp; Too bad cameos, &amp;, even more, intaglios, are so difficult to display.&nbsp; So glad many institutions have put their collections on line with closeup photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>* Edit: See they now also have a color photo, but, like the B&amp;W, taken dead on, flattening the carving.&nbsp; Yours is helpful because it is at a slight angle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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