The beautiful belly dancer presents herself with both arms extended above her head. She tiptoes forward seductively, as the beads of her costume jangle with her movement, enticing her audience. She was captured using the age-old method of lost-wax casting and stained with a brown patina for preservation. The bronze sculpture is mounted upon a red Tennessee marble base with the European Bronze Finery stamp of quality and the artist D.H. Chiparus's signature. Demetre Haralamb Chiparus was a Romanian Art Deco era sculptor who lived and worked in Paris. The first sculptures of Chiparus were created in the realistic style and were exhibited at the Salon of 1914. He employed the combination of bronze and ivory, called chryselephantine, to great effect. Most of his renowned works were made between 1914 and 1933. The first series of sculptures manufactured by Chiparus were the series of the children. The mature style of Chiparus took shape beginning in the 1920s. His sculptures are remarkable for their bright and outstanding decorative effect. Dancers of the Russian Ballet, French theatre, and early motion pictures were among his more notable subjects and were typified by a long, slender, stylized appearance. His work was influenced by an interest in Egypt, after Pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb was excavated.

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