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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\nIt is likely that John Jones was unaware of how rare these vases were when he acquired them.  They appear to be the only ones known of exactly this shape and were first published by Macel Brunet and Tamara Préaud in 1978 (see below).  The authors state that the model is recorded at Sèvres in the nineteenth century under the name<i> vase gobelet Duplessi</i>s.  Given the decoration of mythological type scenes and bold shape, their date is likely to be from the later neo-classical period of the factory's production so the name probably refers to the son of the factory's artistic director, Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis, a  bronze founder of the same name.  Rosalind Savill, in her <u>Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain</u>, Vol. III Appendix of the Designers, shareholders and dealers, states that after his father's death in 1774,  Duplessis<i> fils</i> supplied the porcelain factory with gilt bronze mounts and designs.  He is known to have been a keen adherent of the emerging neo-classical style and favoured bold vitruvian scroll and Greek key designs.  A variant of the latter appears around the rim of the vases.  The mythological scenes including Venus and Cupid painted in the cartouches are after Boucher, although it has not been possible to link them to specific engravings.\n\nMarcel Brunet and Tamara Préaud <u>Sèvres des origines à nos jours</u>  Fribourg, Switzerland, Office du Livre, 1978\nRosland Savill <u>The Wallace Collection catalogue of Sèvres porcelain</u>, London, Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1988","physicalDescription":"Pair of vases and covers in neo-classical style, and decorated with green grounds, the moulded ornament reserved in white, the rims gilded.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Duplessis, Jean-Claude-Thomas Chambellan (fils)","id":"A30579"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":"attributed"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, moulded, painted and gilded","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[{"text":"Neo-classicism","id":"x38958"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010CT5953","2010CT6100","2017KE6940","2019LX1305"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"V","shelf":"1","box":""},{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"V","shelf":"1","box":""},{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"V","shelf":"1","box":""},{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"V","shelf":"1","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}],[{"text":"Cover","id":""}],[{"text":"Vase","id":""}],[{"text":"Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1770-1780","earliest":"1765-01-01","latest":"1780-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"C.392-1921","id":"O99972"},"association":"Design"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"John Jones Bequest, Cat. no. 142","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Pair of soft-paste porcelain vases and covers in neo-classical style, decorated with a green ground and mythological scenes, made at the Sèvres porcelain factory, France, ca. 1770-80.\nC\n\nC\n\nC\n\nC","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Brunet, Marcelle and Préaud, Tamara. <u>Sèvres des origines à nos jours</u>. Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1978. 182 p., 174, ill."},{"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. 18 p., no. 142A, ill. plate 19."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Troude, Albert. <u>Choix de Modèles de la Manufacture de Porcelaines de Sèvres</u> Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, edited by A. Calavas, 1897.  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