CIRCA 1820-30

This pair of candlesticks is based on a pair of silver candlesticks by Nicholas Nolin, dated 1714-15, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in R. Lightbrown, French Silver, London, 1978, p. 74, nos. 60-61. Other similar ormolu-mounts are in the Wallace Collection, London (F. J. B. Watson, Catalogue, London, 1956, F24, pl.20).