EXQUISITE VIENNA BRONZE KOOKABURRA by BERGMANN STUDIO!

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This fine bronze comes from a private collection with 20 life-size or near life-size Vienna Bronze birds we are currently selling on eBay with NO RESERVE! It took the previous owner more than 15 years to put together this great selection, and his purchase price at the time was more than $33,000 for the complete collection. Most of the birds show the studio mark of the famous Bergmann Vienna Bronze studio in deep relief. This is a hard to find and excellently crafted bronze sculpture of a Kookaburra originally designed and marked by the famous Franz BERGMANN Vienna Bronze studio. Bronzes by the Bergmann studio fetch up to US$ 25,000.00 at International auction houses. SPECIFICATIONS:_______________COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Austria.DATE: 20th century.MANUFACTURER: Design and model by the Franz Bergmann Vienna Bronze studio, hand painting by the Bergmann Studio successor Karl Fuhrmann & Co Vienna.MARKS: Marked with the Bergmann jar mark and "Austria" on the underside. MATERIAL: Solid cast bronze.MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUE: Casting & fine chase work. Very fine original hand painting.CONDITION: EXCELLENT & ORIGINAL as found condition with hardly any paint flakes. Paintwork is 100% ORIGINAL to this piece. NO RESTORATION! Please wait for all the pictures to load as they show the condition very well. For more information about our condition reports, please see our terms of business, as stated in the grey section of this listing.SIZE: Height is 3.5 inches. Length is 4.1 inches. (ohne 18sz)SHIPPING: Shipping cost within Europe (All 25 European Union countries, Israel and Switzerland) is US $ 28.50. Shipping cost to the USA and Canada is US $ 38.50 including professional packing (US / Canada customs and duties not included). Shipping cost to Asia, Australia, and New Zealand is US $ 48.50 including professional packing (customs and duties not included). Shipment cost to all other countries upon request. Insurance is required - please read our shipping terms stated in the grey section of this listing. AUCTION ESTIMATE is US$ 800.00 to US$ 1,200.00. Designed by the prestigious Franz Bergmann studio, this superb bronze sculpture portrays a blue-winged Kookaburra, an Australian kingfisher bird. The bird found its perfect visualization in bronze and boasts a breathtaking plumage with blue highlights, striped tail feathers and its typical long beak. The multi-colored cold paint is of very fine execution and the amount of detail applied on this bronze is sheer incredible! The rendering of the bird's face, the texture of the feathers are of a highly naturalistic appearance, lending this fine bronze outstanding liveliness and character.Franz Bergmann (1838 - 1894) was a professional chaser from Gablonz who came to Vienna and founded a small bronze factory in 1860. His son Franz Xaver Bergmann (1861 - 1936) inherited the Company and opened a new foundry in 1900. From that time the Bergmann bronzes were mostly marked with the "jar" or the "lily" mark and some works were signed "Namgreb" (Bergman spelled backwards). Many of the bronzes from the 1900s were still based on designs by Franz Bergmann the elder. In 1960 the inventory of the Bergmann Company was sold to Karl Fuhrmann, who subsequently founded the Karl Fuhrmann & Co. Company. Fuhrmann himself did not own a foundry, and tfore only assembled and applied the hand painting to the Bergmann bronzes. This is why these bronzes were always sold under the original Bergmann trademark.The tradition of the Vienna Bronzes began in the middle of the 19th century with many artisans, was the most famous and prodigious of all was Franz Bergmann. In the "golden age" of Viennese metalworking, the "Wiener Bronzen" was an association of about 120 companies and a handful of them are still producing their fine works of art today! PLEASE ALL ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES I AM CURRENTLY SELLING ON EBAY WITH NO RESERVE! Good luck in bidding and please see my other auctions on Ebay now. Please e-mail me with any questions - I'... read more

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