MAKER'S MARK OF MICHEL DELAPIERRE II, PARIS, 1759

Although Michel Delapierre registered his own mark in Paris on September 7, 1737 as a crowned fleur de lys, two grains, ML, and a stone, he continued to use his father's mark (who died in 1734) a crowned fleur de lys, two grains, MDLP and a stone. Two pairs of candlesticks by this maker are in the Catherine D. Wentworth collection in the Metropolian Museum of Art, New York, and a covered cuelle on stand from the Stavros Niarchos collection is now in the Louvre museum, Paris.