The design of these girandoles is inspired by one by Thomas Chippendale which was illustrated in The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 3rd ed., London, 1763, pl.CLXXVIII (right). Inevitably some detail is simplified but the executed model is also more architectural. Chippendale in fact supplied a similar variant of the design to Dumfries House in 1759 (see: C.Gilbert, Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol.II, p.178, fig.319)