1560 - Curiosities - An exceptional large bronze presentation sculpture. New York, 1892, modelled as and "Presented to Ross C. Browning, President, upon his Retirement from Active Business by the Managers of The Metropolitan Mfg. Co. of the United States and Canada, May 1st 1891", modelled by the New York sculptor Caspar Buberl and cast by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Company, New York 1892, patinated bronze. Dimension ca. 75 x 50 x 27 cm, weight c. 55 kg.

Curiosities - An exceptional large bronze presentation sculpture. New York, 1892, modelled as and "Presented to Ross C. Browning, President, upon his Retirement from Active Business by the Managers of The Metropolitan Mfg. Co. of the United States and Canada, May 1st 1891", modelled by the New York sculptor Caspar Buberl and cast by the Henry Bonnard Bronze Company, New York 1892, patinated bronze. Dimension ca. 75 x 50 x 27 cm, weight c. 55 kg. Ross Charles Browning (1822-1899), an American 19th-century publisher and map editor known for co-publishing Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas with Alvin J. Johnson and later manager of the Metropolitan Washing Machine Company. "The Metropolitan Washing Machine Co., located at 32 Cortlandt St. and listed in city directories as early as 1867. President of the Metropolitan Washing Machine Co. was Ross C. Browning (1822-1899). The following appeared in the New York Times, 28 March 1899, "Ross C Browning; an old resident of Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N.J., died Sunday at Jacksonville, Fla., from pneumonia. He is survived by a widow, two sons, and a daughter. Mr. Browning was born in Barre, Vt. in 1833 should be 1822; and was graduated at the Liberal Institute at Lebanon, N. H., later teaching school for several years in Sussex County, N. J. He then entered the employ of the Erie Railroad at Piermont-on-the-Hudson, and in 1859 formed a partnership with the late Alvin J. Johnson, under the name of Johnson & Browning, and published an atlas of the world. Mr Browning lived in Richmond, Va., and managed the Southern business, and when the war broke out with difficulty got through the lines with his family. The printing presses were left behind and were afterward used by the Confederate Government for printing its notes and bonds. During the war Mr. Browning was an ardent Union man, and at the time of the draft riots in New York, closed his establishment, and with his employes, joined the special police force. After the war Mr. Browning engaged in the manufacture of clothes wringers, and in 1892 sold out to a syndicate and retired from business. He had lived in Llewellyn Park since 1865." Comp.: waltergrutchfield.net Caspar Buberl (1834 Königsberg a. d. Eger-1899 New York) was an American sculptor, as a young man he studied art in Prague and Vienna before immigrating to the United States in 1854 to train under sculptor Robert Eberhard Launitz. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio (depicting the various stages of James Garfield's life), a bronze bust of President Abraham Lincoln and for the 1,200-foot (370 m)-long frieze on the Pension Building in Washington, D.C. "His most celebrated work in Washington is the magnificent terra cotta frieze of soldiers and sailors on the exterior walls of the Pension Building, now the National Building Museum. Buberl was also responsible for other sculpture in Washington: "Columbia Protecting Science and Industry" (1881) above the Mall entrance to the Smithsonian's Arts and Industries Building (built as the United States National Museum), and for the relief panels and roundel portraits in the Patent Building's model hall (now home to the Smithsonian American Art and the National Portrait Gallery). Buberl was also responsible for many Civil War memorials, both Union and Confederate, located in places as far afield as Hartford, Connecticut, Buffalo, New York, Richmond, Virginia and Mobile, Alabama. A number of his monuments (to New York battallions) can be found in the Gettysburg National Military Park.". Quelle Goethe Institut USA. The Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company was a prominent New York-based bronze foundry operating from 1872 to 1926 that specialized in high-quality sand-cast art bronzes. "The Henry-Bonnard foundry, named for the two French bronze founders who launched it in 1872, was by 1884 operated by another Frenchman, Eugene Aucaigne, who transformed the Manhattan company into the most productive and expert bronze foundry in America during the last 15 years of the nineteenth century. The foreman of the celebrated Barbedienne foundry in Paris was one of many French workers reportedly recruited by Aucaigne." From the exhibition:"Frontier to Foundry: the Making of Small Bronze Sculpture in the Gilcrease Collection", December 2014 - March 2015. Ann Boulton Young, Associate Conservator for the Gilcrease Museum, 2014. Provenance: 1945-2020 private Collection Amsterdam, 2022-2026 private Collection Berlin.