A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE 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, one issuing a central tapering column with two scrolled branches, with foliate scroll caps and part-reeded, terminating in stiff leaf nozzles and with foliate wheat and berry scrolls, surmounted by an eagle clasping a crossed flambeau in its talons, the other with a later ebonised turned finial, each 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, one on later ebonised base, one lacking all branch elements, the other lacking several branches
41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) high
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE 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, one issuing a central tapering column with two scrolled branches, with foliate scroll caps and part-reeded, terminating in stiff leaf nozzles and with foliate wheat and berry scrolls, surmounted by an eagle clasping a crossed flambeau in its talons, the other with a later ebonised turned finial, each 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, one on later ebonised base, one lacking all branch elements, the other lacking several branches
41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) high
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