This bronze figure of a dashing Arab hunter was cast at a famous Vienna foundry at the turn of the 20th century. It sold at a Maine auction for $6,075. Kovels details westerners’ obsession back then with exotic Arabian life—and the methods used to forge these detailed sculptures.
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