Altar drum pedestals displaying festive Egyptian bacchic masks support candelabra, which celebrate the harvest, the Autumnal Season and the Vintage as lead by the wine-deity Bacchus. They are designed in the French 'antique' manner as inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. Bacchic thyrsi accompany the 'wine-krater vase' nozzles of branches, that issue from foliated tazze, borne by caryatic bacchante, companions of Arcadian satyrs. The pine-tipped fertility wands are spiralled with Jupiter's vivifying bolts, like the vine-wreathed candlebranches. The pedestal masks derive from patterns in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 (pl. 37), and this guide also featured related candlesticks (pl. 11). The caryatids related to a 'Pair of Bronze French Figures' candelabra supplied in 1805 for Broughton Hall, Yorkshire by Messrs George Bullock and William Stoakes of 'The Grecian Rooms', Liverpool. At this time, the sculptor William Bullock (d. circa 1840), brother of the cabinet-maker George Bullock (d. 1818) was trading at 'The Museum and Bronze Figure Manufactory' in Liverpool (T. Rodrigues et al., Treasures of the North, Exhibition Catalogue, Christie's London, January-February 2000, no. 116). The masks feature on a pair of contemporary bronze-figure candelabra attributed to William Bullock's workshop (T. Clifford, 'William Bullock - a fine fellow', Christie's International Magazine, July 1991, pp. 14-15). This pedestal pattern featured on related candelabra sold from the Estate of Mrs. Mischa Elman, Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1994, lot 264.