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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 4543863, member: 5833&quot;]Thought this piece looked familiar.&nbsp; It was sold earlier this year for 2000 GBP:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/auction-zero/catalogue-id-srauct10041/lot-b359900f-0d7b-4813-9825-ae06014d7f63?utm_source=auction-alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=auction-alert&amp;utm_content=lot-image-link" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/auction-zero/catalogue-id-srauct10041/lot-b359900f-0d7b-4813-9825-ae06014d7f63?utm_source=auction-alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=auction-alert&amp;utm_content=lot-image-link" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/auction-zero/catalogue-id-srauct10041/lot-b359900f-0d7b-4813-9825-ae06014d7f63?utm_source=auction-alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=auction-alert&amp;utm_content=lot-image-link</a></p><p><br /></p><p>That auctioneer thought the signature was &#039;indistinct&#039;, when it could hardly be much clearer.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Talani Leda seems to be a copy of one of the several Ledas designed by Giovanni Pichler.&nbsp; This may have been drawn from another of his works:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402591[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/11632B5F-AA74-4AC7-99F1-208A24E347AB" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/11632B5F-AA74-4AC7-99F1-208A24E347AB" rel="nofollow">http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/11632B5F-AA74-4AC7-99F1-208A24E347AB</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The Pichler has a butterfly (an allusion to Psyche) on the wreath I do not see on the Talani.&nbsp; She seems to have chosen to use a stone with a very shallow white layer, having to cut down into the brown in places.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the cameo was cracked in January, it didn&#039;t show &amp; wasn&#039;t mentioned:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]402592[/ATTACH]<img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/screenshot_20220905-193059_duckduckgo-jpg.402554/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The metal impression on the other side is the much reproduced head of young Hercules attributed to Gnaios.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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