Lot Essay
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between 1745 and 1749.
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PROBABLY MID-18TH CENTURY
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A PAIR OF FRENCH PATINATED-BRONZE AND ORMOLU FIGURES OF YOUNG BACCHUS AND CUPID ON SLATE BASES
PROBABLY MID-18TH CENTURY
Each in the form of a figure reclining on a bed of drapery, one with grapevine sash and holding a grapevine-entwined stick, the other with arrows in one hand and now lacking a bow in his other hand, on oval slate bases, each stamped with a c couronné poinçon, possibly spurious, bases lacking feet
11 in. (28 cm.) high, 12½ in. (32 cm.) long (2)
PROBABLY MID-18TH CENTURY
Each in the form of a figure reclining on a bed of drapery, one with grapevine sash and holding a grapevine-entwined stick, the other with arrows in one hand and now lacking a bow in his other hand, on oval slate bases, each stamped with a c couronné poinçon, possibly spurious, bases lacking feet
11 in. (28 cm.) high, 12½ in. (32 cm.) long (2)