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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11562475, member: 5833&quot;]It&#039;s always highly satisfying finally to identify a cameo subject after years of being on the lookout for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold paper collar around this has &quot;Camillo Pestrini&quot; written by hand in ink.&nbsp; I was never sure if he was cutter or subject.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]545145[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>As has happened so many times, eBay provided the clue, a framed pair of plaster impressions taken from engraved gems.&nbsp; One of them was this one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]545144[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Once I knew my cameo was a copy, I went on a hunt for more info.&nbsp; The Beazley Archive at Oxford let me down.&nbsp; Had to go through near the entirety of La collezione Paoletti, Volume II, page by page, but there it was: the Greek comic playwright Menander, after a sculpture now in one of the Vatican Museums.&nbsp; I should say so-called Menander, as the identification is not certain.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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