Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts next door at another museum

next door at another museum

The lacquered top having a ground imitating black veined marble & decorated with images of a flintlock pistol & a powder flask

He continued to draw with his left hand then

parcel-gilt and marble putti candelabra

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts next door at another museumA 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