The C Couronné poinçon stamp was a tax mark used🐬 in France between 1745𓆏 and 1749, on any alloy containing copper.

Boasting a powerful illusion of motion and drama, these chenets of asymmetric form, epitomise the French rocaille, or Rococo style which emerged during the first half of the 18^th century and which flourished during the reign of Louis XV. The quality of chasing would suggest that they were executed by one of the leading bronziers 📖at the time, but due to sparse documentation, it sadly does not allo💎w us to define an attribution.

With intertwined C scrolls, flowers, foliage and spread-winged dragons, the design of these chenets share ornamental elements and movement depicted in an engraving dated 1724-1750, by François Roumier (1701-1748), now in the Victoria & Albert Museum (E.2428-1909) as well as a design by Nicolas Pineau (1684-1754), in particular a drawing of a wall-light, in the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, published in H. Ottomeyer and P. Pröschel, Vergoldete Bronzen, vol. I, Munich, 1986, p. 66, f🔴ig. 1.9.19. &n꧃bsp;