The two children that gaze up at the candelabra they hold in the form of branches of bay leaves recall the late 1760s works of French sculptor and bronze founder Jean-Louis Prieur (c. 1725 - after 1785). Examples of Prieur's design of candelabra supported by infants are not uncommon: a pair is in the Wallace Collection, and other examples have appeared for sale on the market. Despite this echo of late-eighteenth-century iconography, the wealth of decorative ornament on the V&A candelabra date from the second half of the 19th century. Their tripod stands, their tapering vases embellished with female heads, grapes and vine leaves, and the term-like children whose lower bodies dissolve into scrolling acanthus ornament incorporate stylistic elements derived from Baroque, Rococo and Neo-classical sources and as such are typical of 19th century revivalist taste. The taste for richly decorated furnishing bronzes characterised the collection assembled by John Jones in the second half of the 19th century.