A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI PATINATED-BRONZE, ORMOLU AND BLEU TURQUIN SIX-LIGHT CANDELABRA
ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1790
Each with a central vase surmounted by a bouquet of fruits turning to reveal a bobeche, the tapering neck issuing three scrolling branches modeled as eagle heads supporting nozzles, the main body with stiff-leaf waist and berry boss, tripod supports issuing S-scroll, reeded and acanthus-wrapped arms supporting leaf-tip drip trays and foliate nozzles, headed by satyr masks joined by associated floral swags and united by a circular ring decorated with foliate scrolls, terminating in winged sphynxes, the central stem wrapped with a coiling snake, on a tri-partite circular bleu turquin marble base inset with panels decorated with ribbon-tied foliate-trails and flowering baskets, with a label inscribed in black ink " Bne EDOUARD / 19 av FOCH " ; on later feet
37 in. (94 cm.) high, 21 in. (53.5 cm.) diameter