A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CANDELABRA BASE FRAGMENTCIRCA 1785, ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS REMOND The three legs with mille-raies panelled shafts joined by a collar and terminating in hoof feet, on a concave-sided triangular plinth55cm highProvenance:Probably acquired by Edward 'Beau', Viscount Lascelles (c. 1767-1814) and by descent at Harewood House, Yorkshire.Christie's, 13 December 2012, Property from the Descendants of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary. The Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, Lot 148Part of the same set is in the Royal Collection at BuckinghamPalace having been made for the Prince Regent for Carlton House. This base was likely once part of an impressive candelabrum. A pair of candelabra, apparently of the same form as the present lot, are at The Wallace Collection (see P. Hughes, Catalogue of Furniture, The Wallace Collection, Vol. III, pp 1255-1259, no. 248). The Wallace candelabra, have the same base, legs terminating in hoof feet and branches with Egyptian heads as the present lot and additionally feature a central vase of lapis lazuli issuing ormolu flowering stems above a central spiralling snake and three sphinxes. François Rémond delivered a pair of candelabra 'à trédpied portant huit Lumières Et six sphinx' to Dominique Daguerre on 28th December 1783. A related set of three, of slightly different form, with seated goats instead of sphinxes were sold from Mentmore in Buckinghamshire, Sotheby's, 18-20 May 1977, vol. I, lot 65.