MAK/Museum fur angewandt Kunst/Vienna

The Museum for Applied Arts is vast. I only managed about half of it before giving up quite overwhelmed. The opening parts is a bizarre repository of artifacts  - more auction house preview than museum.

Lots of assorted Habsburgs looking variously bemused.

Poor Marie Wilt. Obviously posing for a bust not her favorite occupation.

There they all are (including Ludwig Von B) waiting and waiting.

Lots and lots of Sissy  - who had alarming amounts of hair.

Places to sit...

and lots of a favored shade of green.

The desk of a melancholy camper - and you can't even see the paperweight of the dead sparrow. 

Such pretty china for tea.

A seance of needlepointed chairs...

one of a pair of gilded vases. I could go on. I've decided that there is only so much I can take in at one time. A bit like eating chocolate cake. All too wonderful  - and then there simply isn't room for anything else.

Curiosities/India

The legacy of the British in India is evident almost everywhere. No more so than in Jaipur where the big museum -- the Albert Hall -- has portraits of Queen Victoria and her son Edward VII and an antique turnstile made in London. 

It also has this pig god who looks pretty cheerful.

In the billiard room at Kota, tigers roar for ever.

And this lioness looks a little moth-eaten and sad.

When there has been wedding in the family, the wall is decorated with Lord Ganesha.

 Note the little mouse who has been invited to the feast.

The photos got muddled in this post. 

This is a painting from the museum in Jaipur. 

These people look very calm --a lot calmer than I'd be if I was being swallowed by a monstrous fish. 

A coat of arms from the same museum. Note the lion's luxuriant mustache. He must be an Indian lion. I like the elephant and particularly Indian cow.

A warrior in the museum in Jaipur. Dioramas are very popular.

This fine fellow is seated in a room full of men each of whom has his his own little table. 

The women ate in another room.  From the fort at Jaipur.

This metal decoration was part of the window of the diorama above.