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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 13109040, member: 5833&quot;]Until I followed your links I thought you meant there were only 2 of this specific version, the William Brown version.&nbsp; They are not going to be able to identify the artist.&nbsp; There is very little info on shell cutters, all the market &amp; scholarly attention having been directed at engravers of hardstone.&nbsp; I have the only signed conch piece I have ever seen: St. George &amp; the Dragon signed by Michelini.*</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24166/lot/369/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24166/lot/369/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24166/lot/369/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]558907[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]558908[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is by our good friend, Charles Schmoll:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]558912[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The cutter of this piece made a fundamental error in giving Hades a trident, an attribute of Poseidon.&nbsp; Hades carries a bident, a 2-pronged fork:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]558909[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one includes the river nymph Cyane, who tried to stop the abduction.&nbsp; She was unable to speak, but saw to it that Persephone&#039;s girdle floated on top of the water, where Ceres found it &amp; got her first clue to her daughter&#039;s whereabouts.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]558910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is from a set of Liberotti impressions.&nbsp; It looks like the Brown version you have, except the horses are there, some other little details.&nbsp; I suspect this was from one of the Poniatowski gems.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]558911[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this was made by the company that produced the stuff I refer to as Danbiere, for lack of the correct name.&nbsp; They would have copied it from somewhere.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]558913[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>*Thoughts on this later.&nbsp; Pressed for time just now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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