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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 ancien regime  with aristocratic collectors such as the fourth marquess of Hertford   and Sir  Richard Wallace (founders of  London's Wallace Collection), John Bowes (of the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle) and Baron Ferdinand de  Rothschild (of Waddesdon Manor).\r\n\r\nThe most important French porcelain factory was founded in 1740 in the royal chateau of Vincennes. In 1756 it was transferred to Sèvres, the other side of Paris, and shortly after was bought by Louis XV. The support   and   protection of the king and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, enabled it to secure the best artists, sculptors, designers and chemists. Sèvres porcelain soon became the most sought after in Europe.   A variant of this neo-classical vase shape is in the Royal Collection.  It has a green ground and sphinx, instead of scroll, handles.  In his catalogue of the Royal Collection, Geoffrey de Bellaigue suggests it was probably designed by Jean-Jacques Bachelier.  He identified the V &amp; A's vase as the largest of a set of three with a turqoise ground painted with camp scenes by Morin on 30 August 1777.\r\n\r\nGeoffrey de Bellaigue. <u> French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen</u>, Royal Collection Publications, 2009, 3 vols, see Volume 1, no. 80","physicalDescription":"Vase and cover of porcelain, turquoise-blue painted with a camp scene and flowers in medallions, and gilded.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Jean-Louis Morin","id":"A29162"},"association":{"text":"enameller","id":"AAT25258"},"note":"see Royal Collection reference"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"x40240"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"porcelain","id":"AAT10662"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"gilded","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Porcelain painted and gilded","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010EB7956","2017KE6971"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"W","shelf":"1","box":""},{"current":{"text":"139","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"W","shelf":"1","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}],[{"text":"Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1777","earliest":"1772-01-01","latest":"1781-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"45.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"1st (largest) size of this model"},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"24.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'41'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"incised mark on underside of cover"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Vase and cover of porcelain painted and gilded, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, ca. 1777","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Geoffrey de Bellaigue. <u> French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen</u>, Royal Collection Publications, 2009, 3 vols.  For a full discussion of this shape and its variants see Vol. 1, cat. no. 80 <i>vase momie</i> (a version with sphinx head handles), c. 1773-76, and no. 81 of the exact same model dated 1775.  Suriving examples range in date from 1773-79.  Drawings for a vase of similar shape are known by Jean-Jacques Bachelier and by Pierre d'Hancarville in his Antiquités Etrusques of 1785.  352p: 'On 30 August 1777 Morin received for decoration three vases with a turquoise blue ground, described in the painters' ledger as <i>vase momie rectifié</i> of the 1st, and 2nd sizes which he painted with camp scenes.  The larger one is almost certainly the vase with scroll handles in the Jones Collection.'"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"camp","id":"AAT257104"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"medallions","id":"AAT77354"},{"text":"ormolu","id":"AAT11048"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["767-1882","767A-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"767","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Vase","Cover"],"assets":["2019LW4889"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-22","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}