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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.\n\nIn 1753 the king of France, Louis XV, became the principal shareholder of the Sèvres porcelain factory. This enabled the factory to set the highest standards of designing, modelling and painting. The vase combines the very best of all these skills. It also shows the factory's snow-white soft-paste porcelain to best advantage. This model, with its dolphin handles, may have been introduced in 1781 to commemorate the birth of the the heir to the French throne, known as the Dauphin.  Examples of this rare shape are in the Beit Collection at Russborough, Co. Wicklow, Ireland and in the Kress Collection in the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York.   A further example, mounted with a clock in the centre of the body of the vase, is at Sèvres, Cité de la Céramique.","physicalDescription":"Porcelain vase and cover of ovoid form with a narrow neck, with two handles moulded in the form of dolphins. The lid, also gilded, is moulded to resemble a fountain of water. The body of the vase has a <i>gros bleu</i> ground overlaid with <i>oeil de perdrix</i>gilding, with white reserves on front and back and small areas on the foot, all reserves framed by a gilded foliate border. The white reserves each contain baskets of flowers suspended from ribbons, painted in polychrome enamels.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Porcelain","id":"AAT10662"},{"text":"enamels","id":"AAT14910"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Painted porcelain","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Images Online","id":"THES48937"},{"text":"Vases","id":"THES48879"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2014GY3573","2014GY3589","2010CT6101","2006AW2774","2017KE1659","2017KE1660","2017KE6897","2019LX1305"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"3","id":"THES263060"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"3","id":"THES263060"},"free":"","case":"CA2","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}],[{"text":"Cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"c.1780-86","earliest":"1775-01-01","latest":"1786-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"34","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"180","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"5/07/12","earliest":"2012-07-05","latest":"2012-07-05"},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"130","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"5/07/12","earliest":"2012-07-05","latest":"2012-07-05"},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"Crossed Ls","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":"Another example of this Sevres shape is at Russborough, Blessington, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Porcelain vase and cover in <i>gros bleu</i> with <i>oeil-de-perdrix</i> ground, painted in colours, made by the Sèvres porcelain factory, France, about 1780-86.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Hildyard, Robin. European Ceramics. London: V&A Publications, 1999.","id":"AUTH406296"},"details":"","free":""},{"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. 19 p., no. 145, ill. plate 21."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Garnier, Édouard.  &lt;i&gt;<u>La porcelaine tendre de Sèvres</u>&lt;/i&gt;, Paris, Maison Quintan, 1891.  Illustrated plate 24 together with the cup and saucer commemorating the dauphin's birth in the collection, 786-1882."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Marcelle Brunet and Tamara Préaud.  <u>Sèvres des origines à nos jours</u>, Office du  Livre, 1978, catalogue 234 for an example in the Musée National de Céramiques mounted with a clock where this pair is cited, together with a further example in the Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York (Kress Collection)."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"James Parker, Edith Appleton Standen, and Carl Christian Dauterman  <u>Decorative art from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: the tapestry room from Croome Court, furniture, textiles, Sèvres porcelains, and other objects.</u>  London, Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; [distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Conn., 1964]  See catalogue no. 44, pp. 214-215,  Figs, 162-163, for a green version reserved with a military trophy and a putto on each side respectively, without painter's marks."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"dolphin","id":"AAT7937"},{"text":"water","id":"AAT11772"},{"text":"fountain","id":"AAT6179"},{"text":"oeil de perdrix","id":"x38291"},{"text":"flowers","id":"x35571"},{"text":"baskets","id":"AAT194498"},{"text":"ribbon","id":"AAT14668"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["751-1882","751A-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"751","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE","Vase","Cover"],"assets":["2019LN1638","2019LR0195","2019LU1735","2019LT8854","2019LW4025","2019LW0148"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-24","recordCreationDate":"2002-11-26","availableToBook":false}}