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. Another man holds a candlestick over a girl's head so that he can kiss her. Le Dessous du Chandelier. By Gatine from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817 Handcoloured lithograph from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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