Sir William Chambers published a design for ormolu chimerical griffin candlesticks in the 3rd edition of his Treatise on Civil Architecture, 1791. This design was adopted by Matthew Boulton (see: N. Goodison, Ormolu: The Work of Matthew Boulton, London, 1974, fig. 92). However, these griffins are supporting central thyrsae and have palm-wrapped tazze nozzles. This is more characteristic of the robust style adopted in the very early 19th Century by Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (d.1854)