A pair of silver-gilt baluster-shaped pricket candlesticks, each with three scroll legs on cast scallop feet, with applied cast cherubs' heads, and chased with flowers and cherub wings, with central oval flat chased cartouches between, each containing the Prince's crown above a DJ cypher and Royal arms (1603-89).

Along with the commissions from the king for chapel plate, James, Duke of York also issued orders for items of altar plate for the chapels royal. Much of this was almost identical in style to the pieces supplied to Charles II, varying often only in the engraved ciphers on the works. The same cipher (seemingly 'DL') appears on some of the Duke of York's bookbinding and almost certainly represents a conjoined D and inverted J for Dux Jacobus (Duke James).

The maker's mark is that of a greyhound sejant, a symbol used by one of the more prominent London goldsmiths of the mid-seventeenth century, Richard Blackwell II. Much of his work consisted of plate for private Anglican chapels or churches with aristocratic patrons, or colleges. There is no suggestion at this date that James had any intentionto commission plate for a Catholic chapel; his aim was simply to supply his private chapels in the royal residences at St James's Palace, Whitehall and elsewhere.

Text adapted from Charles II: Art and Power (2017).