The crystal-cut candelabra's serpentine branches spring from pillar-supported bowls and frame one large and two stem-supported Egyptian obelisks capped, like sun-discs, with starred finials; while French style drops festoon their domed canopies and the candle-vases' tazza. One such candelabrum or girandole served to advertise the wares of the Fleet Street glass manufactory founded in 1756 by William Parker, whose firm was granted a Royal Appointment to George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV in the 1780s (J. Bourne, Lighting, London, 1991, fig. 317). Similar candelabra, which are likely to have been acquired en suite with the chandelier hung in 1770 in the saloon at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire, were moved from their giltwood stands to the mantlepiece by the time they were listed in the 1804 inventory (J. Hardy, 'Robert Adam and the Furnishing of Kedleston Hall, Connoisseur, July 1978, p. 211, fig. 4)