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'THE CREED', A GILT BRONZE AND IVORY FIGURE
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY D.H.CHIPARUS, 1920s
modelled as an Egyptian high priestess, wearing long pleated dress and elaborate headdress, standing with arms outspread, on a stepped mottled brown onyx base, incised signature Chiparus, stamped numeral '23' 16in. (40.5cm.) high
CAST AND CARVED FROM A MODEL BY D.H.CHIPARUS, 1920s
modelled as an Egyptian high priestess, wearing long pleated dress and elaborate headdress, standing with arms outspread, on a stepped mottled brown onyx base, incised signature Chiparus, stamped numeral '23' 16in. (40.5cm.) high
Literature
C.f. Albert Shayo, Chiparus, Master of Art Deco, Abbeville Press, 1993, p.110 for a similar example of this figure