The model of these candelabra exists in two basic patterns, of which the present pair is the better-known model. The other features two putto with hands in identical but opposed positions. Examples of these sold at auction include a pair from the Josse collection, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 28-29 May 1894, lot 141, a pair sold anonymously in these Rooms, 21 November 1963, and two pairs from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, sold at Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 5 and 6 (the latter sold previously by the Trustees of Lord Hillingdon's Heirlooms Settlement, Sotheby's London, 6 July 1979, lot 164).

A third version, with the putti playing flutes, in the Residenz, Munich, formed part of the Zweibrücken or Pfalz inheritance acquired by the Bavarian Wittelsbachs after 1799, illustrated in H. Ottomeyer P. Pröschel et.al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. II, p. 156, fig 3.2.1 where an attribution to Philippe Caffiéri is suggested (fig. 3.2.2.)

This model was particularly favoured by English collectors and a number of the examples that survive in English country house collections were most probably sold by the marchand-merciers, who came to London in 1787 at the invitation of the Prince Regent.