The candlestick pattern with youthful native hunters on plinth-supported pillars and bacchic lion-feet, relate to that of a caryatic clock pattern, celebrating the Continent of Africa, and invented in 1799 by the Parisian clock-maker Jean-Simon De Verberie of the Boulevard du Temple (De Verberie's, Cahier des desseins des Pendules, is preserved in the Cabinet des Estampes at the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris).

A pair of these candlesticks, which were popularised by publications such as Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's romantic novel Paul and Virginie, 1787, is exhibited in the Musee Francois Duesberg at Mons (E. Niehuser, French Bronze Clocks, 1700-1830, Atglen, 1999, fig. 262).