A mantel clock with identical herm-caryatid supports is illustrated in Tardy, La Pendule Française, Paris, 1969, vol. II, p.269, stylistically, both the candlesticks and mantel clock would appear to reveal a debt to the designs of Pierre Gouthière (d. 1813/14), the celebrated fondeur-ciseleau, whose console tables in the Wallace Collection have related herm-supports (see F.J.B. Watson, Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1956, F317.

A stove at the Château du Mavais with a large caryatid figure which hides the stove pipe, is illustrated in John Whitehead, The French Interior in the 18th Century, London(?), 1992, p. 112