These wall-lights are related to a set of six in the salon blanc of the duc de Brissac's Parisian hôtel, described in the inventory as trois paires de bras à enfants et carquois prisés deux cent quarante livres. Two virtually identical pairs of this model are recorded- one from the collection of Lady Baillie at Leeds Castle, Kent was sold at Sotheby's, London, 13 February 1974, lot 124, while the other is discussed in Partridge, Exhibition Catalogue, 1990, no. 39.
A set of four similar wall-lights from the Wrightsman Collection was sold in these Rooms, 26 October 1994, lot 133.