"Cats Playing Billiards" - Franz Bergman, ca.1900.
Cold painted Austrian bronze group of two cats enjoying a game of billiards. The bronze with vibrant colour and fine hand finished surface detail, signed with the Bergman ‘B’.
Franz Xavier Bergman(n) (1861-1936) was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronzes, Oriental, erotic, and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objets d'art.
Cold painted Austrian bronze group of two cats enjoying a game of billiards. The bronze with vibrant colour and fine hand finished surface detail, signed with the Bergman ‘B’.
Franz Xavier Bergman(n) (1861-1936) was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronzes, Oriental, erotic, and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objets d'art.
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