Arab warrior horse bookend statue Pompeian Bronze Paul Herzel, orig paint+label

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Arab warrior horse bookend statue Pompeian Bronze Paul Herzel, orig paint+label:
$395.00

Wonderful figural piece of an Arab warrior on his rearing horse. Probably inspired by Lawrence of Arabia. This is a single bookend but serves beautifully as a stand-alone art object.
Designed by listed artist Paul Herzel, his name formed into the top of the base.Bronze clad, a manufacturing technique whereby a skin of bronze was made to adhere to a plaster formthrough the process of electro-plating. A handful of companies used this method in the early 1900\'s to make decorative household objects that had the look, feel and heft of solid bronze pieces yet still were affordable by the middle class.
One of those companies was Pompeian Bronze, operating in NYC in the 1920\'s. An original label still is affixed to the bottom.
Condition is excellent in terms of structure: no breaks in the cladding, no mashed corners on the base, no delicate elements of the design bent or cracked. More often than not, this piece is found with some damage to the rifle - BUT NONE HERE: it is not bent; no cracking in the cladding where his hand grasps the rifle; no cracking in the cladding where the rifle butt rests on his thigh.
Paint is original, does show chipping and wear in places, but mostly intact.
The piece sits flat and stable.
This is big: 11⅛ inches tall to the tip of the rifle; base is 6¼ X 2⅞. And heavy at just shy of 3¾ pounds.
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