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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 11649200, member: 5833&quot;]I don&#039;t know if there are any examples of work in shell by either Vergé out there.&nbsp; I have only seen work in hardstone.&nbsp; Antonio was one of the suppliers of cameos to Castellani.&nbsp; I think these 2 are his hand, although I cannot guarantee it:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546726[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546727[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This one is questionable: is the F. for Filippo? or for Fecit?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546725[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The ones we can be sure about are by Filippo, where he signed both his names, or signed Vergé in a way that looks like those others:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546728[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>On this piece of mine he seems to have been carried away by writing Filippo, then had to cram Vergé in:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546729[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there are ones that look like they were done with a vibrating engraving tool:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546733[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]546731[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]546732[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That last, not very good photo, is inside a silver ring with a tiger eye cameo, which I have also not been very successful at photographing.&nbsp; I have had to wonder whether there was a successor Vergé company since the piece seems out of keeping with other work.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]546734[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When I checked half an hour ago, I got an AI search result saying there was nothing for Filippo Vergé, so I guess for now this will be the authoritative source.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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