RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 16th June, 2023

ANTIQUE 20thC AUSTRIAN COLD PAINTED BRONZE 'CLEOPATRA WITH PUMAS' BERGMAN c.1910

Antique early 20th Century Austrian cold painted bronze of seated queen Cleopatra with two Pumas by her side, on a realistically modelled carpet, draped over a rectangular base. Made by Franz Xavier Bergman (1861-1936), arguably, the most famous of the Viennese cold-painted bronze artists. Renowned for his Arab bronze and animal subjects, including Harem beauties, Arab tradesmen, Scribes and Arab Warrior and almost every animal subject that was known at the time.

Reference Number: E9000

ANTIQUE 19thC FRENCH PAIR OF CANDELABRA BY FERDINAND BARBEDIENNE c.1870

ANTIQUE 19thC FRENCH PAIR OF ORMOLU BRONZE CANDELABRA ON BLACK MARBLE c.1870

ANTIQUE 19thC CHINESE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE VASE c.1850

Antique 19th Century Chinese bronze vase, the pear-shaped body supported on a spreading foot, the waisted neck flanked by a pair of loop handles issuing from dragon heads, cast in low relief to the exterior with two wide bands of confronting archaistic birds reserved on a leiwen ground, all above similarly decorated cicada-shaped lappets, the base with a partly obscured inscription reading. Signed undermeath.

Reference Number: E8892