Franz Bergman Cold-painted Bronze Figure of a Boy in a Canoe

Description:

Franz Bergman Cold-painted Bronze Figure of a Boy in a Canoe, Austria, late 19th/early 20th century, the boy wearing a wide-brimmed hat and holding a net with a sting ray, the canoe with caught fish in the bottom, with impressed "B" within a vasiform mark, and numbered "3605," the boy numbered "3412," lg. 7 in.
Estimate $800-1,200

Net and supports are bent and misshaped. Possibly lacking component which would attach to branch beneath canoe. Scattered loss to polychrome enamel.


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