FRANZ XAVER BERGMAN (AUSTRIAN, 1861-1936): A FINE COLD PAINTED BRONZE INKWELL MODELLED AS AN ELEPHANT AND RIDERthe elephant climbing up a step, his trunk lifting the domed cover to the inkwell, and his head hinged at the neck, the base signed 'Namgreb' and with the Bergman stamp of a B inside an amphora,17cm high'Namgreb' is Bergman backwards, a signature he used on only the finest of his works.