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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, and Baron Ferdinand de  Rothschild.\r\n\nJohn Jones bought a pair of similar Sèvres vases with a brilliant blue glaze.  This rare (possibly unique) marbled version was bought at auction by Jones at the sale of Henry Hope, where it was described as 'veined marble' with no mention of it being made of Sèvres porcelain decorated to resemble marble. They were all based on a real marble vase (now in the J. Paul Getty Museum)  that may have been owned by the art collector the duc de Choiseul, which may account for the vase name in the Sèvres factory records 'vase Choiseul'. The shape must have still been considered highly fashionable in 1769 when the English writer and collector Horace Walpole ordered the blue pair directly from the Sèvres factory.  Prominently displayed at Walpole's \"Gothick\" style villa at  Strawberry Hill (see cats.134 and 135), they were bought at the  Strawberry Hill sale in 1842 (erroneously described as \"Oriental\") by  John P. Beavan, and later passed to Jones. In Jones' overcrowded  house at 95 Piccadilly this vase was displayed together with the blue pair in his dining room in front of the windows overlooking  Green Park (see fig.41).\n\r\nImmediately upon its acquisition, the Jones collection was placed on  display in galleries newly painted for the occasion. The objects were  arranged by type, colour and shape, with the porcelain in serried  ranks of heavy wooden cases (see fig.42). According to the  Museum's 1883 Jones collection handbook, \"... it would have been  impossible, as well as useless, to have retained ... any memorial of  their old arrangement,\" indicating that various styles of display must  have been debated at the Museum. When the Jones collection was  reinstalled in 1922, objects and furniture were intermixed to give the  suggestion of eighteenth-century period settings; this approach has  been refined in two subsequent reinstallations of the collection (see  figs.43 and 44).\r\n\r\nLit. South Kensington Museumm 1883a, no.232; South Kensington  Museum, 1883b; Thorpe, 1962; Charleston and Bolingbroke, 1972;  Sutton, 1972; Eriksen and de Bellaigue, 1987","physicalDescription":"Vase of low wide oval shape, moulded with gadroons on a pedestal foot with a row of 'pearls' around the top, all painted white with grey veining to imitate marble, mounted in gilt- bronze, the handles formed as pairs of entwined snakes, the foot set on a square base also of gilt-bronze.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Weydinger, Léopold","id":"A30585"},"association":{"text":"painted by","id":"x28695"},"note":"probably"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"},{"text":"gilt bronze","id":"x35084"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, painted and gilt bronze, moulded","categories":[{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2009CB6574","2018KY3897"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"3","id":"THES263060"},"free":"","case":"CA8","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"No","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1763","earliest":"1763-01-01","latest":"1763-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"743-1882","id":"O77715"},"association":"Model"},{"object":{"text":"743A-1882","id":"O80960"},"association":"Model"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"11","unit":"in","qualifier":"converted from imperial dimensions in register","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"","unit":"in","qualifier":"converted from imperial dimensions in register","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"17","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"280","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10.10.12","earliest":"2012-10-10","latest":"2012-10-10"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"435","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10.10.12","earliest":"2012-10-10","latest":"2012-10-10"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"250","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"10.10.12","earliest":"2012-10-10","latest":"2012-10-10"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Weight","value":"7.48","unit":"kg","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Measurements and weight checked September 2022","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"scrolling mark, possibly intended as the Zodiac sign for Leo","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"This mark has been attributed to the Sèvres painter Léopold Weydinger"},{"content":"scrolling interlaced Ls enclosing date letter k for 1763","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":"The John Jones Bequest, Cat. no. 233\r\n\r\nThe black and white variegated marble vase on which this porcelain version is thought to have been based is Getty collection no. 79.DJ.183.  It appears to have the same gilt-bronze mounts as the Sèvres version with the addition of a line of gilt-bronze 'pearls' defining the top of the foot.  These have been rendered in porcelain by the Sèvres factory.","historicalContext":"This shape has been identified as 'Vase Choiseul'","briefDescription":"Vase of low wide oval shape, moulded with gadroons on a pedestal foot, Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, 1763","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Handbook of the Jones Collection</u>. London: Chapman and Hall Limited, 1883. 15p."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Brunet, Marcelle and Préaud, Tamara. <u>Sèvres Des origines à nos jours</u>. Fribourg, Switzerland: Office du Livre, 1978. 164 p., 120, ill."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Aileen Dawson, <u>French Porcelain, A Catalogue of The British Museum Collection</u>, British Museum Press, 1994, see catalogue number 108 for a bough pot '<i>cuvette à fleurs Courteille</i>' with the same date letter as this vase (k for 1763) bearing the coat-of-arms of the Choiseul family."},{"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. 61, no. 233."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Gillian Wilson, 'Acquisitions Made by the Department of Decorative Arts, 1979 to Mid 1980', The J. 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