A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU, PATINATED-BRONZE AND WHITE MARBLE CANDELABRA
Lot 124 Property from The Earls of Harewood

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

Closed13 December 2019

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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

The Earls of Harewood, Harewood House, Yorkshire.
Probably acquired by either 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.