Designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' or Roman manner, these sculptural candlesticks share much in common with the documented oeuvre of the Roman workshops of Giuseppe and Luigi Valadier (d.1785). Although the model has so far remained untraced, it is interesting to note that a pair of ormolu-mounted Biscuit candlesticks of this exact model, possibly acquired in Paris in the late 18th Century, was sold by Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis at Sotheby's House sale, Schlöss Regensburg, 12-15 May 1993, lot 445.