Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts This early display of talent

This early display of talent was a harbinger of his future success

the blue shield with three golden fleur-de-lis

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

1914 in the same regiment and behaved like a hero

Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts This early display of talentA 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