This pair of "bougeoirs à la financière" also called "à la cardinale" is particularly rare and is very similar to that sold by Christie's Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 114 . Another similar pair by Charles or Christophe Vassadel, Clermont-Ferrand circa 1687, in the Alexander P. Morgan's collection, illustrated in Les Orfèvres de l'Auvergne, Claude-Gérard Cassan, p. 70, was sold by Christie's New York, 15 October 1985, lot 58