Fashionable people playing the parlour game of the candlestick base. "For a forfeit, one fool kisses a candlestick base which drips hot wax on a woman on a sofa. While another man holds a candlestick over a girl's head, thus transforming her into a candlestick base so that he can kiss her." Handcoloured engraving by Gatine from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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