{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O332722"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O332722/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH9787/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2010EH9787/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2010EH9787","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2017KE1701","copyright":"©Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O332722/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O332722","accessionNumber":"746&A-1882","objectType":"Vase and cover","titles":[{"title":"vase fontanieu","type":"manufacturer's title"}],"summaryDescription":"This vase 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 (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.  This neo-classical style vase was designed by Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu who included it in a book of vases published in 1770 entitled: Collection de Vases Inventés et Dessinés par Mr de Fontanieu... It consists of twenty shapes of vases represented by forty designs (twenty in outline only) and seven vases on plinths.  On the evidence of the surviving models, the factory copied three of his drawings all of which are called <i>vases fontanieux </i>in the records.  A pair of vases dated 1773 of almost the same shape, also with a turquoise ground,  is in the Royal Collection.\n\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. 86","physicalDescription":"Vase and cover of porcelain painted in turquoise-blue and enamels. Painted with a landscape and a bouquet in panels. Raised garlands and rows of pearls.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Pierre, Pierre-Nicolas (aîné)","id":"A29191"},"association":{"text":"painter","id":"x36959"},"note":""}],"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"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Porcelain painted with enamels","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2010EH9787","2017KE1701"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"W","shelf":"4","box":""},{"current":{"text":"139","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"W","shelf":"4","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":"1773","earliest":"1773-01-01","latest":"1773-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"28.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"13.9","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Interlaced 'L's' enclosing 'u'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Date letter for 1773"},{"content":"'Pe'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In blue enamel for Jacques Pierre l'aîné"}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Vase and cover of porcelain painted in turquoise-blue and enamels, painted by Pierre-Nicolas Pierre (aîné), Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, 1773","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 see Vol. 1, no. 86, pp. 374-9, a pair, also of 1773 with a turquoise ground, finely painted with cherubs and trophies by Dodin. pp375-6: 'Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu, who had succeeded his father in 1767 as<i> intendant et contrôleur général des meubles de la couronne</i>, published in 1770 a book of vases entitled: Collection de Vases Inventés et Dessinés par Mr de Fontanieu... It consists of twenty shapes of vases represented by forty designs (twenty in outline only) and seven vases on plinths.... The Sèvres factory was not slow to take advantage of this new source for models...  On the evidence of the surviving models, drawings and examples which can be clearly related to shapes in the Fontanieu book, three of his vases were reproduced at Sèvres... In the Sèvres records no distinction is made between the descriptions of the different shapes. They are all called <i>vases fontanieux</i>.  It seems likely, as first suggested by Pierre Ennès, that they were differentiated at the manufactory by their size alone.  In the inventory dated 1 January 1774 five <i>vases fontanieux</i> were listed in the sales' room...'\nFor the plaster model of this shape see Fig. 86.5, 377p.  The cover and foot are moulded with radiating acanthus leaves, while the cover and foot of 746 &amp; A-1882 are plain."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"William King, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, II, Ceramics, ormolu, goldsmiths' work, enamels, sculpture, tapestry, books, and prints  (London: Victoria and  Albert Museum, 1924), p. 14, no. 132."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"landscape","id":"AAT15636"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"scroll","id":"AAT10094"},{"text":"garlands","id":"AAT167386"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["746-1882","746A-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"746","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Vase","Cover"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-11","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}