Lot Essay
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
The collection of French furniture assembled by Baroness Burton and her father in the late 19th Century remains one of the most celebrated of English collections of the period. Acquired at such historical sales as that of the Earl of Lonsdale in 1879, the Demidoff's at San Donato and the Dukes of Hamilton at Hamilton Palace in 1882 and the Cavendish-Bentinck's in 1891, it was largely dispersed at Christie's on 22 November 1950.
The collection of French furniture assembled by Baroness Burton and her father in the late 19th Century remains one of the most celebrated of English collections of the period. Acquired at such historical sales as that of the Earl of Lonsdale in 1879, the Demidoff's at San Donato and the Dukes of Hamilton at Hamilton Palace in 1882 and the Cavendish-Bentinck's in 1891, it was largely dispersed at Christie's on 22 November 1950.