These krater-shaped flower-vase candelabra, with thin ovoid body and ring-handles joined by a palmette-enriched ribbon, relate to the celebrated pattern of circa 1780. An extrememly closely related pair of vases, almost cetainly acquired through the marchand-merciers Dominique Daguerre and Martin-Eloi Lignereux by Francis, 5th Duke of Bedford, are at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire (illustrated in R. Edwards, ''Patrons of Taste and Sensibility', Woburn Abbey', Apollo, December 1965, p. 456, fig. 111). The distinctive lilly-spray branches, which have been associated with almost all the major ciseleur-doreurs of the Louis XVI period, may well be attributable to François Rémond, who was elected maître in 1774. A related pair of vases, almost certainly acquired by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, are at Waddesdon Manor, (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Fribourg, 1974, vol. II, no. 169)