This is one of three pairs of glass sconces to survive at Boughton, but the late seventeenth - and early eighteenth - century inventories indicate that there were originally many more pairs. They may have been supplied by the Pelletier family, as they charged in February 1705-6 £3 10s. for 'two pair of glass Sconces with their branches', and in June, 1706, 5s. 'for mending a pair of large Sconces and for finding branches and knossels to 'em'. On 1 October 1708 they supplied for £12 'a large pair of glass Sconces nigraved [sic] with gold with a green ground with double branches'. A payment is also recorded in the 2nd Duke of Montagu's accounts for 1712 of £4 18s. to 'Mr Phillip Arbonett for glace sconces'.