Vienna bronze oriental chess players

Two Vienna bronze oriental seated figures playing chess. One man is raising a glass to toast or celebrate his victory. Both men have remarkable facial expressions.

The figures are made out of casting moulds and assembled out of different parts. Afterwards they were cold painted with the remarkable color scheme. Later Vienna bronzes are almost always made after the designs of the founder of the most well known bronze factory by Franz Bergmann (1838-1894). His son, Franz Xavier Bergmann (1861-1936) inherited the factory and did the same, just like other Vienna bronze factories who were less known but benefited from the enormous popularity of Vienna bronze. This popularity remained untill the Art Deco period. Nowadays, still small Vienna bronze factories exist.