The serpentined girandoles are designed in the French 'picturesque' fashion popularised by Thomas Chippendale's, Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754-1762, and with their mirrored bracket and acanthus-whorled pediment relate in particular to a 'Girandole' pattern engraved in 1760 for the 3rd edition of 1762 (pl. CLXXVII). Similar pediments feature on a pair of girandoles supplied for the gallery designed in 1761 for Corsham Court, Wiltshire by the architect Lancelot Brown (d. 1783) (O. Brackett, Thomas Chippendale, London, 1925., pl. XLII).