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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 <i>ancien regime</i> 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.\n\nThese flower troughs would have been filled with real or, when out of season, porcelain flowers fixed on painted metal stems.  They would have provided a visual feast, placed on pieces of furniture or mantelpieces, probably with mirrors behind them.  They are decorated with a rich turquoise ground reserved with finely painted miniature scenes of rustics in the countryside by the decorator André-Vincent Vieilliard whose mark can be found on their bases, together with the date-letter 'G' for 1760.  The decoration was inspired by engravings after works by the Dutch seventeenth-century painter, Teniers the Younger.\n\nIn her catalogue of the Sèvres porcelain in the Wallace Collection, Rosalind Savill links this pair of vases to ones described in the factory sales records of December 1760.  They were presented by the King, Louis XV, to the important court official M. de Courteilles and his wife.\n\nRosalind Savill.  The Wallace  Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols.  London:  Trustees of the Wallace   Collection, 1988.  See Vol 1, pp.  97-100","physicalDescription":"Flower vase or trough in soft-paste porcelain of undulating profile with a fixed central longitudinal division and scrolling leaf handles, decorated with a turquoise blue ground reserved with a tavern scene painted in enamels, edged with gilded patterns.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Vielliard, André-Vincent (père)","id":"A28938"},"association":{"text":"painted by","id":"x28695"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft-paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain painted in enamels and gilded","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010ED2875","2017KE1701"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"W","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Flower holder","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1760","earliest":"1760-01-01","latest":"1760-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"754A-1882","id":"O1154641"},"association":"Pair"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"crossed Ls enclosing date letter G for 1760","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"'G' was formerly thought to denote 1759-60"},{"content":"mark of painter Vielliard","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"This pair of flower vases were given by King Louis XV to M. et Mme. de Courteilles, December 1760.  See Savill (below) for Jacques Dominique de Barberi, marquis de Courteilles (1696-1767). He was an important court official and held the post of <i>intendant des finances</i> from 1748 and acted as the King's royal representative at the Sèvres factory from 1760.  This pair of cuvettes appear in the factory's sales records as '<i>Cuvettes Verdun, 3ème gdr. B.C. Tesnieres</i>' @ 480<i> livres</i> (240<i> livres</i> each). [third size,<i> bleu celeste</i> ground with decoration after Teniers].  De Courteilles received many gifts of porcelain.  For another in this collection given on the birth of his grandchild, see the plaque 400-1872.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Flower vase or trough in soft-paste porcelain, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, 1760.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Carey, Juliet. <u>Peasants on porcelain: Sèvres and the taste for Teniers</u>. Oliver Fairclough, John Whitehead and Aileen Dawson eds. <u>French Porcelain Society Journal III </u>, 2007. pp. 111-130 ISSN 1479-8042"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"King, William. <u>Catalogue of the Jones Collection, II, Ceramics, ormolu, goldsmiths' work, enamels, sculpture, tapestry, books, and prints</u>. Victoria and Albert Museum: 1924. 8p., no. 116, ill. plate 6."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Peters, David. <u> An examination of Vincennes and early  Sèvres date letters</u>.  The French Porcelain Society, A transcript of the talk given at the French Porcelain Society Study Day on 17 June 2014.  London, 2014.  Following a detailed analysis of the records against existing pieces, Peters has suggested 'G’ is now for 1760, not 1759-60 as formerly thought."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Cyrille Froissart, <i>Des Cuvettes Démasquées</i>. Lecture given to The French Porcelain Society Study Day, 17 June 2014. Illustrated p. 16.  For full illustrated text in English see:  http://web.archive.org/web/20221208153231/http://www.cyrillefroissart.com/fr/fiche.php3?id_article=4913"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Savill, Rosalind.  The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres  Porcelain, 3 vols.  London: Trustees of the Wallace  Collection, 1988.  See Vol 1, pp. 97-100, for a discussion of a vase of this shape (called a vase 'à compartiments' or 'Choisy'), and an example in the Wallace Collection C226.  (See Froissart above for a more recent examimation of this and similar shapes, convincingly linking this one to the name '<i>cuvette Verdun</i>'). See vol III, Appendix I Designers, shareholders, dealers for details of the marquis de Courteille pp. 974-5, and pp. 988-9 for Jean-François Verdun de Monchiroux,<i> fermier-général</i>, and original shareholder in Vincennes-Sèvres, after whom this shape is named."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["754-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"754","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}