These candlesticks are after the celebrated pair in the Wallace Collection attributed to Jean-Démosthème Dugourc on the basis of a 1789 drawing by him in an album of designs for the Comte de Provence and Madame Elisabeth (see F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1956, F1746, 175. The drawing and three similar candlesticks, now in Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, as reproduced by H. Ottomeyer & P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol. 1, pp. 286-7, no. 4.1.5.2. A single candlestick, while previously belonged to H. Bouvier, is in the Musée Camarelet (no. 207).

Related pairs were sold anonymously in these Rooms, 14 May 1990, lot 70, and 7 December 1989, lot 24. An almost identical pair was sold anonymously at Christie's, New York, 26 April 1990, lot 57