A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA CIRCA 1790, AFTER A MODEL BY ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS REMOND Each with a pair of classical female figures holding aloft a tapered urn, issuing a central tapering column with five scrolled branches in two tiers, terminating in stiff leaf nozzles, the lower twisted scroll branches headed by rams head masks and with secondary double foliate wheat and berry scrolls, the upper branches, with foliate scroll caps and part-reeded, all surmounted by eagles and crossed flambeaux, on a cylindrical part-fluted white marble socle mounted with a band of foliate scrolls issuing anthemions above a beaded and stiff leaf collar, on square marble base, drilled for electricity 41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) high Provenance The Earls of Harewood, Harewood House, Yorkshire. Probably acquired by Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740–1820) or his son Edward ‘Beau’ Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (1764-1814) or inherited in 1916 as part of the Clanricarde bequest or later purchased by Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882- 1947), and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE FIVE-LIGHT CANDELABRA CIRCA 1790, AFTER A MODEL BY ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS REMOND Each with a pair of classical female figures holding aloft a tapered urn, issuing a central tapering column with five scrolled branches in two tiers, terminating in stiff leaf nozzles, the lower twisted scroll branches headed by rams head masks and with secondary double foliate wheat and berry scrolls, the upper branches, with foliate scroll caps and part-reeded, all surmounted by eagles and crossed flambeaux, on a cylindrical part-fluted white marble socle mounted with a band of foliate scrolls issuing anthemions above a beaded and stiff leaf collar, on square marble base, drilled for electricity 41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) high Provenance The Earls of Harewood, Harewood House, Yorkshire. Probably acquired by Edward Lascelles, 1st Earl of Harewood (1740–1820) or his son Edward ‘Beau’ Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (1764-1814) or inherited in 1916 as part of the Clanricarde bequest or later purchased by Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882- 1947), and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.
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