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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 3012357, member: 5833&quot;]Excellent work.&nbsp; I&#039;m amazed you were able to find so much.&nbsp; I have the 2 volumes of La Collezione Paoletti.&nbsp; As you probably know, pg 475 is in the bibliography in the section listing the numerous articles by Lucia Pirzio Biroli Stefanelli.&nbsp; I tried to find Xaveria skimming through but could not spot it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>She is in the list of gem engravers on pg 495 as De Simoni, Saveria (Xaveria) &amp; represented by one work, an armed Perseus now lost.&nbsp; The impression is shown on page 325, Tomo VIII, #3.&nbsp; The note on pg 284 says the work is after Antonio Pichler, who was probably the Pichler who did the cameo on the box.&nbsp; The gem is signed in Greek.&nbsp; Interesting that she chose to transliterate her name using chi instead of sigma for the first letter.</p><p><br /></p><p>I went back to check Forrer for De Simoni &amp; Simoni, still no luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see my Leda on pg 94 of this paper on Talani by Gabriella Tassinari:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/4720" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/4720" rel="nofollow"> https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-4797/4720 </a></p><p><br /></p><p>By a happy coincidence, I was put in touch with Gabriella just when her paper had been submitted for publication.&nbsp; There was some delay that allowed her to make revisions &amp; she worked Leda in at the last minute.</p><p><br /></p><p>Talani also worked in Naples, where her husband had a shop.&nbsp; Gabriella, who lives in Milan, discovered some letters Talani had written to the government there when things had changed due to Napoleon&#039;s takeover.&nbsp; Previously no one had known the Talanis ever moved to Milan.&nbsp; This gave her the nucleus for the bio.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can&#039;t quite remember, but the Talani may have been my first hardstone cameo.&nbsp; It was definitely my first signed one. Since have acquired a number of others.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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