An extremely rare pair of bow figures of two putti playing with a dolphin mounted as candlesticks, where a tôle peinte branch with foliage supports Bow sconces and a variety of English and Continental white flowers. It is affixed to the square aperture of the nozzle erupting from the dolphin’s gaping mouth. A standing putto, buttocks exposed in scantily clad drape over the left shoulder, wraps his arms around the sinuous body of the dolphin. The other scantily clad putto has fallen, supporting himself with one leg on the oval rockwork base, while the other is kicked up with his right arm in the air, his left hand braced against the standing putto’s knee.

For a similar example without tôle peinte, see Two Putti playing with a Dolphin in the Glaisher Collection, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (C.3028-1928).