Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Sold Nicostrato

Nicostrato

Finely decorated with enameled flowers

he would rapidly sketch out the scene to be painted with pen and ink without the small details of his subject

The table top of octagonal form having a deeply carved edge with a floral design

the back is decorated with eight rectangular panels with raised 'pyarmid' shaped caps

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Sold NicostratoA 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