• Charles Samuel KEENE

Bad excuse better than none
c. 1867

Essay

Index 1945–2010

Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) Little Red Riding Hood Gustave DORÉ The Annunciation UNKNOWN; TITIAN (after) (Anna Romana Wright reading by candlelight) Joseph WRIGHT of Derby Pickaback UNKNOWN; Joshua REYNOLDS (after) Coffee pot GEORG JENSEN SØLVSMEDIE, Copenhagen (manufacturer); Henning KOPPEL (designer) Weeping woman Pablo PICASSO Sideboard, from the Langer apartment Adolf LOOS (designer) Costnitz MASTER I.K Moses bringing down the Tables of the Law John Rogers HERBERT Teacup and saucer MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer) Untitled UNKNOWN Untitled UNKNOWN Anguish August Friedrich Albrecht SCHENCK Mother and child Cornelis de VOS Clock garniture MINTON, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (manufacturer); Marc-Louis-Emmanuel SOLON (decorator) Triumph of Charity (Charitas) Thomas de LEEUW L' Amour du vin UNKNOWN; Steph. JEAURAT (after) Winter, from The four seasons FULDA PORCELAIN FACTORY, Fulda (manufacturer) Procession of soldiers UNKNOWN The first cloud William Quiller ORCHARDSON Johann Friedrich Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, plaque VOLKSTEDT PORCELAIN FACTORY, Volkstedt (manufacturer) Chacmool Tarascan, Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, West Mexico Ornamental frieze Virgil SOLIS Monica UNKNOWN Untitled W HAVELL Armchair, from the Post Office Savings Bank, Vienna Otto WAGNER (designer); GEBRÜDER THONET, Vienna (manufacturer) Coming to an anchor off Sydney Cove Augustus EARLE Untitled Hans Rudolph MANUEL The Banquet of Cleopatra Giambattista TIEPOLO