These torchères are related to a Louis XIV guéridon pattern designed at the end of the 17th century by Daniel Marot, architect to William III, for the King's appartment at Hampton Court Palace. This form of guéridon was later popularised by patterns issued in Marot's Nouveaux Livre d'Orfèvrerie (T. Murdoch, Jean, René and Thomas Pelletier, a Huguenot family of carvers and gilders in England 1782-1826, Burlington Magazine, Nov.1997, p.733, fig.3). A pair of torchères of this form, but with additional voluted-tripods beneath there tazze, was sold anonymously in Paris, Palais Galleria, Ader, 18/19 June 1964, lot 168.