Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts 000 guilders in debt

000 guilders in debt

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Antique Austrian Franz Bergman Cold Painted Bronze Zebra Quagga Sculpture Statue, 1900 Decorative Arts 000 guilders in debtA 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