A fine quality Orientalist bronze sculpture depicting a bearded man wearing a long light robe and turban sitting cross-legged on a wooden bench. Colorfully cold painted. Vienna, Austria, circa 1900. Features an impressed B letter within a vasiform mark above impressed GESCHUTZT, and numbered 2746. Attributed to Franz Xaver Bergman, Austrian, 1838 to 1894. Franz Xavier Bergman was the owner of a Viennese foundry who produced numerous patinated and cold-painted bronzes, Oriental, erotic, and animal figures, the latter often humanized or whimsical, humorous objects d art. Oriental Bronze For Collectors, European Metalwork, Decorative Art, Antiques And Collectibles For Home Decor.