This model of candelabra, associated with Philippe Caffiéri, exists in two patterns, of which the present pair is the better-known model. The other model features putti with hands in identical but opposed positions. Examples of these include a pair from the Josse collection, sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris 28-29 May 1894, lot 141 and two pairs from the collection of M. Hubert de Givenchy, sold at Christie's, Monaco, 4 December 1993, lots 5 and 6. A third version, with the putti playing flutes, now in the Munich Residenz, originally formed part of the Zweibrücken or Pfalz inheritance acquired by the Bavarian Wittelsbachs after 1799, (ill. in H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, Vol. II, p. 156, fig 3.2.1 where an attribution to Philippe Caffiéri is suggested (fig. 3.2.2). This model found particular favour amongst English collectors in the late 18th and early 19th Century. A number of the examples that survive in English country house collections were most probably sold by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, Poirier's successor, who came to London in 1787 at the invitation of the Prince Regent.