possibly modelled by Joseph Willems, each as the head of a young woman, her brown hair tied at the back and with trailing strands, the stem moulded with her collar and coloured trailing sprays of flowers, each adapted as a candlestick, mounted on green tôle peinte bases and leafy branches applied with white porcelain flowers and a sconce moulded with fruiting vine,

Crewe House, London, Inventory, 1913, p.28, in the Boudoir; A Pair of candlesticks, formed of painted metal stands, holding 2 Dresden china heads and nozzles, 7½" high.;
‘West Horsley Place II’, Country Life, 1 April 1939, p. 329, illustrated on the chimneypiece in the Morning Room.

One sconce has one leaf missing on the edge, four flowers are now loose and separate, all the flowers have typical chips, one has been broken and repaired, one cane handle has some kiln speckling
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An example of this model, possibly representing the actress Peg Woffington, is illustrated by John C. Austin, Chelsea Porcelain at Williamsburg, 1977, p.109, no.99, who comments that it `has been attributed on stylistic grounds to the Belgian, Joseph Willems, who prepared models at Chelsea for about eighteen years. If so, this was amongst the first pieces he produced there. The paste suggests a late triangle period and Willems reached Chelsea in 1748'. A similar example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Elizabeth Adams, Chelsea Porcelain, 2001, p.89, fig.7.30; and examples were sold by Christie's, London, 20th October 1986, lot 137; by Sotheby's, New York, 25th October 1991, lot 30; by Sotheby's London, 15th September 1992, lot 339; and more recently by Christie's New York, 21st April, 2010, lot 171.