Franz Bergmann Orientalist Arab Slave Nude Group Cold Painted Bronze Signed 1910 Decorative Arts the inside having engraved strap

the inside having engraved strap hinges and a single lidded candle till

12 cm X 11

An unusual cast iron gilded mirror with a winged cherub finial above a twin arched mirror

The base having two drawers above a corresponding carved fruiting vine frieze and twin paneled doors below also enclosing a shelf

Franz Bergmann Orientalist Arab Slave Nude Group Cold Painted Bronze Signed 1910 Decorative Arts the inside having engraved strapA very large 24" (61cm) Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861 1936) cold painted bronze group statue, signed, Austria, circa 1910. The bronze in the Orientalist manner & depicts a young slave girl and an Arab trader, the two figures standing on a rocky outcrop. He wearing a cold painted robe and she protecting her modesty with a garment. The statue is signed with Bergmann's initial "B" inside a twin handled urn, below are the letters "GESCH" an abbreviation for