Each burgauté lacquer vase decorated with scenes of characters in a lakeside landscape, featuring pagodas and bamboo, flanked by handles terminating in satyr heads, supporting four branches decorated with fruits, the base surrounded by a frieze of rosettes, on a square base, the vases with a Chenghua mark
41 in. (104 cm.) high; 21.⅔in. (55 cm.) wide; 38.5 cm. (15.¼ in.) deep

Acquired by Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles in 1919 for Chesterfield House, London from Charles Davis;
photographed in the vestibule of Chesterfield House in 1922 and in the West Hall in 1930,
thence by descent until sold;
The Property of the Right Honourable The Earl of Harewood; Christie's, London, 1 July 1965, lot 52.
The Collection of Hélène Rochas; Christie's, Paris, 27 September 2012, lot 84.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I; Sotheby's, Paris, 11 October 2022, lot 70.

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The collections of French decorative arts at Harewood House are the result of a number of collectors following in the footsteps of Edward, Viscount Lascelles, 1^stEarl of Harewood who in the early 19th century travelled to France and returned with a number of magnificent ormolu-mounted porcelain works of art. Later Earls added to the collection of French decorative arts and ormolu-mounted porcelain up until the early 20th century and French works of art were prominent in the furnishing of the 6th Earl's London residence, Chesterfield House where from 1922 he would reside with his wife H.R.H. the Princess Mary, Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood.

The present pair of vases was acquired by Henry Lascelles, Viscount Lascelles (later 6th Earl of Harewood) in 1919 for his new London residence Chesterfield House. Lascelles had purchased the house with funds left to him by his great-uncle Hubert George de Burgh-Canning, 2nd Marquess of Clanricarde, and soon set about acquiring magnificent furniture for the house. In 1922 Lascelles married H.R.H The Princess Mary, Princess Royal, daughter of King George V and Queen Mary and the present pair of vases were photographed in the vestibule of Chesterfield House which became the couple's London residence. Chesterfield House was sold in 1932 and many of the items were removed to Harewood House. In 1948 the vases were on loan to Frogmore House in Windsor Great Park which Princess Mary had on occasion used as a residence.

They were photographed in the Vestibule in 1922 and then the West Hall in 1930 by Country Life in an unpublished image.
Interestingly, the ormolu candle-branches of these candelabra are very similar to those on a pair of candelabra in the form of Medici vases from Harewood House, probably acquired by Edward ‘Beau’ Lascelles for Harewood House on Hanover Square London and sold Christie's House Sales, Harewood House, 3 October 1988, lot 23 and then Christie's London, 10 June 1993, lot 61.
Other related candelabra were acquired by Ferdinand de Rothschild and are currently preserved in Waddesdon Manor (illustrated Geoffrey de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Vol. II, 1974, pp. 696-697). The mask motif flanking the vases are found on a number of vases including a pair from the Meyer Collectoin, sold Christie's, New York, 26 October 2001, lot 90.