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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 695121, member: 649&quot;]Agree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Considering there were many carvers working at the same time (and in the years following) in the same style, and with access to the the same hardware as Giusti, it must be determined what there is about this work that can definitively identify it as Giusti.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even the V&amp;A doesn&#039;t attribute <a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O368769/frame-frame/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O368769/frame-frame/" rel="nofollow">a piece they own</a> as a definite Giusti so it seems unlikely they&#039;d give you more than an opinion that your piece is &quot;in the style of&quot;.</p><p><i>&quot;The Museum purchased this frame as a new item in 1861, to provide an example of modern Italian carving. Although the maker is not known, it bears many similarities with the work of Luigi Frullini in Florence, and of the studios of Angelo Lombardi and Pietro Giusti in Sienna.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><img src="https://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2011EY/2011EY5007_jpg_l.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To me, Google&#039;s translatation makes it sound like this person is saying that similarly styled stuff has been carved from Giusti&#039;s time period through to recent times and that your piece could be any one of those.</p><p><br /></p><p>It will be down to whether or not it&#039;s in that list of his works that you mention, I suppose. </p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, it&#039;s <i>gorgeous</i>!!</p><p><br /></p><p><b><i>Disclaimer: This is the inexpert opinion of someone who just did a bit of googling on the subject, LOL.</i></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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