Note: The 1769 inventory of the Turmzimmer lists N=221 as: 'Zwanzig Stück Tafel-Leuchter, mit vergoldten Rändern, und kleinen Blumen nach Indianis. Mahlerey, 10 1/2 Zoll hoch', [twenty candlesticks, with gilt borders, and small flowers after the Indies]. (Claus Boltz, "Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769", Keramos, Volume 153, July 1996, p. 82.)

Candlesticks of this shape appear in the Meissen service made between 1735 and 1738 for Graf Alexander von Sulkowski (1695-1762), the first privately commissioned armorial service of large size to have been designed to order, and are thought to have been derived from Augsburg silver forms and examples.