Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts 1914 in the same regiment

1914 in the same regiment and behaved like a hero

the server is made from the finest figured Cuban mahogany

and the placement of the hands on the armrests gives the sitter a pose of status & formal power

This fine pair of antique screens are in the manner the master painter avian subjects of the Momoyama period (1573-1615)

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts 1914 in the same regimentA fine and very rare antique Austrian Art Nouveau cold painted bronze sculpture of a zebra or more likely a Quagga by Franz Bergman, Vienna, circa 1900. The bronze depicts a remarkably lifelike zebra, or more likely an exceptionally rare model of a Quagga: a Zebra like animal that went extinct in the 1880s. This piece is in remarkable condition, the vibrancy of the cold painted decoration without almost any fading. The bronze most likely created for