A pair of late 19th / early 20th century Austrian silvered bronze figures of a peasant boy and a girl


cast by the Berndorf foundrythe boy wearing a straw hat and holding a walking cane, the girl with high frilled headdress holding a parasol, both standing on rockwork bases, one side BERNDORF to the rear, on black slate moulded stepped plinths, 51.5cm high overall (2)
|The Berndorf foundry, operating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was renowned for their complicated high quality castings, the majority of which were created by anoymous artists. Several bronzes by Berndorf are discussed inmBermans Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, Vol. II (Berman, vol. II),