Figure of a bird. Oscar B. Bach (stamped mark). New York, New York. Probably 1920-1930. Bronze with dark brown chemical patina. Height overall: 8 1/4"; Width overall: 3 1/2"; Depth overall: 4 7/8"; Diameter of base: 3 1/4". This aggressively stylized standing bird is probably a stork or an egret. Its long, slightly curving beak and crest feathers are more suggestions of power and menace than clearly identifiable attributes of a species. The figure looms forward slightly with tense and abstracted wings that have severe and sharply geometric suggestions of feather veins. Its muscular three-toed clawed feet grip the front edge of a flat round base. A stamped mark on the rear of the base reads O. B. BACH.