Thanks, Civ
There are so many fake works of art and antiquities in Museums, Princely collections, and private collections around the world.
Museums are constantly changing attribution of famous works. The fact is that they just don’t know. People who paid a small fortune for their art collection are reluctant to admit they were duped, and the game goes on and on.
Definitely. About ten years ago an old codger art critic went on a rampage claiming that many of the most famous ancient works were fakes, and further claimed that in private, the curators were well aware they were fake. About thirty years ago a guy faked a brewster chair (and the process by which he did it was clearly described in a later article, the fraud was *brilliant* in its thoroughness), planted it in an antique store frequented by some curators, and the “find” wound up on the cover of the glossy full color annual report of the Detroit art museum. :’) He did it just to prove a point. (’: