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In 1756 it was transferred to Sèvres, to the south-west of Paris, and shortly after was bought by the king, Louis XV.   The Sèvres factory was conviently located on the road to Versailles, the seat of royal power. The support and protection of the king and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, enabled the factory to  secure the best  artists, sculptors, designers and chemists. Sèvres soon became the most sought after porcelain in Europe.  \r\n\r\nIn the eighteenth century, vases were often displayed on furniture or chimney-pieces, usually in front of a mirror.  Rosalind Savill, in her catalogue of the Wallace Collection Sèvres porcelain states in her introduction that Louis XVI's inventory of  porcelain at Versailles shows Sèvres in most rooms, including sets of vases, or garnitures,  as they were known.   This model is known from 1769 with several variations in the shape of the  handles, foot and lower part of the vase.   This type of decoration resembling cameos carved in low relief is known as <i>grisaille.</i><i> </i> It is typical of neo-classical style decoration on vases and other items of the 1770s.  It may have been developed by the head of  the painters' workshop, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne Genest who is recorded painting vases and other items with this decoration from 1769. Unfortunately his work cannot be identified for certain as, being the workshop head, he wasn't required to use a mark as was usual for other painters.  From the mid 1760s  onwards,  the plain ground colours of the 1750s are often enriched with gilded patterns.  This gilded pattern is particularly rich and was described as '<i>briques d'o</i>r'  in the factory records.  \r\n\r\nThis pair of vases was among eighty-nine pieces of Sèvres porcelain  bequeathed with a collection especially rich in eighteenth-century  French  decorative art by John Jones in 1882. As the handbook to the Jones Collection  stated in 1883: \"Suddenly ... a collection has been  given ...  which contains the very objects so much to be desired, and, as it seemed a year ago, so hopeless of attainment.\" A military tailor who made  his fortune  during the Crimean War, Jones (1799-1882)  started collecting seriously in the 1850s, sharing a taste for luxury  objects of the ancien regime  with aristocratic collectors such as the  fourth marquess of Hertford and Sir  Richard Wallace (founders of  London's Wallace  Collection), John Bowes, and Baron Ferdinand de  Rothschild.   William King, in his catalogue of the Jones Collection (see below) of 1924 relates that these vases were formerly in another famous collection, that of Ralph Bernal ( 1783-1854).  Bernal was a politician who had a long parliamentary career from 1818-1852.  His private fortune, derived from estates in the West Indies inherited in 1810, allowed him to buy exquisite works of art, particularly silver, glass, ceramics and miniatures.  Following his death, the auctioneers Christie and Manson held a famous sale in 1855 of 4,294 lots, 730 of which were acquired for the Museum of Manufactures at Marlborough House.  This collection later became the Victoria and Albert Museum.   A contemporary account of the sale by Henry Bohn reported that these vases were sold for £700 to a Mr. S. H. Sutherland; Jones had to purchase them from him 'for a considerably larger sum'. \n\nWilliam King, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, II, Ceramics, ormolu, goldsmiths' work, enamels, sculpture, tapestry, books, and prints.  London: Victoria and  Albert Museum, 1924.\nSavill, Rosalind.  The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres  Porcelain, 3 vols.  London: Trustees of the Wallace  Collection, 1988.\nHenry G. Bohn. Catalogue of the Bernal Collection, no. 598.","physicalDescription":"Vase and cover, one of a pair. 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