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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 10342028, member: 5833&quot;]The Lapatin paper details known provenance.&nbsp; I doubt Michelini would have had the opportunity to see the private collections, but Tassie got access to an immense amount of material over the years &amp; his impressions, as well as those of others, were widely available.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just checked.&nbsp; Tassie 3362.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit.&nbsp; It may also be the case that the impression Michelini saw was not sharp enough to pick up the very slender staff/scepter she has over her shoulder so he left it out.&nbsp; Something like that seems to have happened with the James Ronca cameo that the V&amp;A had identified as Psyche.&nbsp; I have observed that impressions of Luigi Pichler&#039;s Iris rarely completely pick up the caduceus he placed in the field below her that serves to ID her.&nbsp; Ronca clearly worked from such a faulty impression so that, even if he knew it was &#039;the Rainbow&#039;, others did not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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