Orientalist Bazaar Performer
Sculptor: Franz Xavier Bergman
Origin: Austrian h: 16.25 in.
Year: circa 1900
An Austrian Art Nouveau polychromed bronze Orientalist sculpture "Arabian Soldier" by, Franz Bergman of an Arabian solider leaning on his rifler a top a stone base. The sculpture is signed with the Bergman mark displaying the letter B within a cartouche and is further numbered.
References:
A similar model is photographed in "Antique Vienna Bronzes" by, Joseph Zwobel; Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ©2008 pg.150
