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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PepperAnna, post: 4537686, member: 17332&quot;][USER=13814]@stracci[/USER] --I am working on this, checking through the Beazley Gems database. This impression is part of the Lippert collection (#449). <b>Philipp Daniel Lippert</b> published the first edition of his <i>Dactyliotheca Universalis signorum exemplis nitidis redditae</i> in Leipzig in 1755-1762. It comprised three &#039;volumes&#039; in book form, each containing twenty drawers of one thousand gem casts per volume, chosen from the prominent collections of the day in Europe. It was accompanied by a summary catalogue. The description is in Latin &quot; Sacra, vt edunt, Marti.&quot; I tried to use Google translate, but it didn&#039;t work.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is also the Tommaso Cades collection, for which I unfortunately cannot find a corresponding scanned catalog. This collection was made specifically for the German Institute in Rome. According to the information, this particular impression was from an ancient gem.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not represented in the Amastini,&nbsp; William Tassie, or Paoletti collections. I am still working my way through the James Tassie collection. I will report back if I find more information on the plaster impression.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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