Lot Essay
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper
These figures are modelled after prints from a folio of one hundred engravings drawn by G. Scotin and other artists, published by Le Hay of Paris in 1714 for M. de Ferriole, the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Entitled Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes Nations du Levant tirées sur les tableaux peints d'après Nature en 1707-1708, par les ordres de M. Ferriole, this volume illustrated Turks, Negroes, Levantines, Bulgarians, Hungarians and others on the streets of Constantinople and formed the basis of many Meissen models. Usually depicting a Turk and his female companion, several versions of this celebrated model are recorded, including a pair sold anonymoulsly in these Rooms, 10 December 1992, lot 70 and a further pair on 4 December 1986, lot 27
These figures are modelled after prints from a folio of one hundred engravings drawn by G. Scotin and other artists, published by Le Hay of Paris in 1714 for M. de Ferriole, the French Ambassador to the Sublime Porte. Entitled Recueil de cent estampes représentant différentes Nations du Levant tirées sur les tableaux peints d'après Nature en 1707-1708, par les ordres de M. Ferriole, this volume illustrated Turks, Negroes, Levantines, Bulgarians, Hungarians and others on the streets of Constantinople and formed the basis of many Meissen models. Usually depicting a Turk and his female companion, several versions of this celebrated model are recorded, including a pair sold anonymoulsly in these Rooms, 10 December 1992, lot 70 and a further pair on 4 December 1986, lot 27