A pair of large French ormolu and patinated bronze candelabra

Crafted in the second half of the nineteenth century in the manner of the celebrated master metalworker François Rémond (French, 1747-1812), these magnificent candelabra comprise a pair of Classical maidens holding aloft a spectacular fruit-filled golden cornucopia, with trios of candle-branches with corolla nozzles, scrolling foliage, and cockerel head terminals. Each stem is centred around a fluted shaft around which is entwined a serpent, and which is completed by a pine-cone finial. They each stand on a small circular marble pedestal. The maidens themselves are left in bronze while their sumptuous arrays are gilded. 

This particular pair is based on an earlier model by Rémond, some of whose work is displayed in the Musée du Louvre, including for some time one of theoriginal pair, (OA 5246-5247), after it had been transfered from the Mobilier National in 1901, and which had previously furnished the Château de Pau.