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Bronze, painted Austria, around 1900 Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861-1936) - Viennese bronze founder Stamp in the form of a jug for F. X. Bergmann on the underside 18 cm (height); 26 cm (length) Very good condition This piece by the Viennese artist Franz Xaver Bergmann shows an oriental man on a colourful carpet. He is sitting half cross-legged on his carpet wearing a golden garment, red shirt and reddish turban. He is holding a miniature sarcophagus, which he is offering for sale. Other statues are seen to his left on the carpet or a little table next to him. The carpet is richly decorated with different motifs, predominantly in red, blue and gold. The Bergmann bronze Arab on Oriental Carpet is in very good condition. Merely light traces of wear in the form of paint abrasions on the top and bottom of the figure. The bronze is marked with a stamp in the form of a jug - F. X. Bergmann's logo - on the underside. The measurements are 18 cm (height) and 26 cm (length). Vienna Bronzes The Vienna Bronzes are very popular with collectors down to the present day. Created in the 19th and 20th Century, the bronzes show human figures, often of an exotic look, humans with animals and sometimes animals alone. The bronzes have been so popular that there had been more than 80 manufacturers only in Vienna. Since a huge amount of these bronzes has been melted during the wars, the surviving bronzes are very popular and rare. Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861-1936) Franz Xaver Bergmann was the son of a bronze caster with the same name who had a small bronze foundry in Vienna. Bergmann inherited the foundry of his father and reopened it in 1900. Many of the designs however, stem from the old sketch books of his father. The foundry was especially famous for its very naturalistic cold painted animal bronzes. Cold painted bronzes differ to fire glazed ones as the glaze can be applied in more layers. The knowledge on how to cold glaze is lost which makes the Bergmann bronzes especially valuable.