A PAIR OF EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE TWIN-LIGHT CANDELABRA, each surmounted by a star above a turned stem issuing scrolling foliate-cast trumpets with Vitruvian scroll collars and coronet drip-pans, supported by kneeling female Egyptian caryatids, on rectangular hieroglyph-cast spreading bases

A related pair of kneeling Egyptian candelabra attributed to Claude Galle, forming part of a clock garniture, is illustrated in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, p.338, fig. 5.3.6. A pair of this related model, probably acquired by Thomas, 7th Earl of Elgin (d.1841) from the marchand-mercier Martin-Eloy Lignereux (d.1809), was sold Sotheby's London, 12 June 1992, lot 305