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The 'C' Couronné poinçon was a tax mark used in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
A pair of chenets of this model from the collection of Sir Charles Clore was sold Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1984, lot 18.
The figures on these chenets are most likely La Scaramouche and Bagolin, characters from the Commedia del Arte. The figures, as well as the character names, were disseminated through early print sources and became popular designs for German stoneware and porcelain as well as French gilt bronzes. The female figure of La Scaramouche is characterized by her right hand lifting her skirt and her costume of a ruffled collar and hat. The figure of Bagolin is also frequently depicted in a ruffled collar and carrying a lute. Both these figures appear in a series of engravings by Johann Jakob Wolrab published in Nuremberg, circa 1720. A later series of engravings of the Commedia del Arte by Joullain appear in Riccoboni's Histoire du Théatre Italien 1727 (see H. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pfleuger, 1993, vol. I, pp. 10 and 132).
A pair of chenets of this model from the collection of Sir Charles Clore was sold Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1984, lot 18.
The figures on these chenets are most likely La Scaramouche and Bagolin, characters from the Commedia del Arte. The figures, as well as the character names, were disseminated through early print sources and became popular designs for German stoneware and porcelain as well as French gilt bronzes. The female figure of La Scaramouche is characterized by her right hand lifting her skirt and her costume of a ruffled collar and hat. The figure of Bagolin is also frequently depicted in a ruffled collar and carrying a lute. Both these figures appear in a series of engravings by Johann Jakob Wolrab published in Nuremberg, circa 1720. A later series of engravings of the Commedia del Arte by Joullain appear in Riccoboni's Histoire du Théatre Italien 1727 (see H. Morley-Fletcher, Early European Porcelain and Faience as collected by Kiyi and Edward Pfleuger, 1993, vol. I, pp. 10 and 132).