Card holder with parrots, Vienna, circa 1920
Description
Onyx business card holder with figurines made of cold-painted bronze in the style of Franz Xavier Bergmann.
Dimensions: 9x12x13 cm
Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861-1936) was an Austrian entrepreneur, best known for his Viennese foundry, which produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronze sculptures with erotic, animalistic, oriental, and mythological themes.