A pair of French gilt-bronze, patinated bronze and steel and Egyptian porphyry candelabra after the model by François Remond in Louis XVI style, second half 19th century

each in the form of a flower-filled baluster vase with a band of cherubs above a female mask with ribbon-tied berried laurel in her hair suspending floral swags and a satyr mask on each side issuing a spirally-fluted stem supporting a central flaming nozzle and four scrolled candelarms terminating in an Egyptian head and palm leaf nozzles on a fluted socle and stepped beaded porphyry base, stamped on one bronze ring `RG'

These impressive candelabra are in very good condition and ready to place. Both with minor scratches to the surface of polished steel body.
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Comparative Literature:
Peter Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, Vol. III, London,1996, pp. 1250-1254, no. 247. 
Shelley M. Bennett and Carolyn Sargentson, Ed., French Art of the Eighteenth Century at the Huntington, Huntington, 2008, pp. 172-173, Cat. no. 66.
H. Ottomeyer/P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 258-259.

This impressive pair of superbly cast and chased candelabra are with some minor variations, based upon an original model dating to around 1782-5 in the Wallace Collection, London illustrated by Hughes, op. cit., pp. 1252-53, no. 247 (F134 and F135). They are attributed in part to François Rémond (1747-1812), received Master 1774. The palm leaf candleholders are the same as on a pair of ostrich candelabra delivered by Rémond in1782 for the cabinet turc of the comte d'Artois at Versailles. The scrolling candlebranches are also of a model that have been attributed to Rémond and the Egyptian head terminal and frieze with putti are also found in the work of François Rémond. However, Hughes op. cit., p. 1254, says that the Wallace pair may be the product of collaboration between Rémond and other fondeurs working to the commission of Daguerre. 

There is a also similar model in the Huntington Collection, illustrated by Bennett and Sargentson, op. cit., p. 173, (27.183, 27. 184), which unlike the Wallace and the offered pair, does not have the swags at the front  and they also lack the leafy sprays beneath the necks or satyr masks on the sides and has a bleu turquin base.