Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Sculpture and still-lives

and still-lives

2 of 9 (apart from the edition of 31)

The cabinet is also fitted with two original smoked glass shelves

in 1795 he supplied a pair of similar quality marquetry games tables to Catherine the Great's private apartments at the Winter Palace

The panel with old customs stamps to the verso

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Sculpture and still-livesA 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