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Message:: [QUOTE="808 raver, post: 695143, member: 4654"]I totally agree, just like art all over the world there are fakes and school works that look like the originals and it's very hard to tell then apart. What makes me think it's by Giusti is parts of my carving are reproduced in other known works by him and not by any other carver, on first glance many works from that time and place look the same but up close they are very different. Take the V&A's plaque, it's not by Giusti, Giusti would have never left the tails of the dragons just stippled, like mine he would have carved tiny scales, the heads of the dragons are wrong and there is a whole list of differences. I suppose you really need to download detailed photos so you can zoom in to the fine detail, my photos don't help as I have a pants camera and I have to compress the files to post them. It would take me all day to write the things I've noticed and comparisons I made over the years but I'm very happy to be proved wrong as this journey isn't about proving it's by one carver it's about finding out who carved it.[/QUOTE]