Similar examples are illustrated in Christopher Bangs, The Lear Collection: A Study of Copper-Alloy Socket Candlesticks A.D. 200-1700, London, 1995, nos. 56. and 57. A comparable candlestick is also depicted in an anonymous painting titled Momento Mori, 1560, in the Dulwich Picture Gallery (see Eloy Koldeweij, The English Candlestick: 500 years in the development of base-metal candlesticks 1425-1925, London, 2001, p. 38).