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This vogue arose in imitation of much-admired Chinese mounted vases.  The form of the vase was often influenced, as here, by hardstone prototypes and goldsmiths' work.  The 'vase Choiseul', named after the duc de Choiseul, an art collector and important political figure, represents one of the earliest Neo-classical shapes produced by the factory.<br><br><b>Time</b><br>The end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 enabled collectors such as Walpole to renew their acquaintance with Paris.  When Walpole saw these vases, he must have admired them for their modern yet classical form. A new interest in all things classical, inspired by recent archaeological discoveries, meant that the Neo-classical form of these vases was viewed as the height of fashion by collectors such as Walpole.  This was one of the first vase shapes produced by Sévres to depart from the earlier rococo style.<br><br><b>Place</b><br>A 1781 watercolour  (museum no. D.1837-1904, by Thomas and Paul Sandby and Edward Edwards) shows this vase and its pair (museum no. 743A-1882) between a pair of maiolica snake-handled vases on commodes in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill.  Shortly afterwards, Walpole moved them to a table in the Round Drawing Room.  Nearly a century later the collector, John Jones, displayed them on Boulle tripod tables by the dining-room windows of his house at 95 Piccadilly.","physicalDescription":"Oval shaped soft-paste porcelain vase with raised gadrooning, decorated all over in overglaze 'bleu nouveau'.  The vase is mounted in chased gilt-bronze (ormolu) with guilloche decoration on the foot and a reeded rim and snake handles all bound with ribands.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"AAT25230"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, decorated in overglaze blue enamel known as 'bleu nouveau', with gilt-bronze mounts","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Vases","id":"THES48879"},{"text":"Containers","id":"THES48972"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AT4262","2017KE1671"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"118A","id":"THES49236"},"free":"","case":"CA6","shelf":"","box":"15"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Vase","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Sèvres","id":"x29522"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"vase"},{"place":{"text":"Paris","id":"x29068"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"mounts"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1763-1769","earliest":"1763-01-01","latest":"1769-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"744-1882","id":"O346778"},"association":"Model"},{"object":{"text":"743A-1882","id":"O80960"},"association":"Pair"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"28.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"43","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"25.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'ae'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"incised","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"incised inside rim"}],"objectHistory":"The 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":"","briefDescription":"Porcelain 'Choiseul' vase, Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Sèvres and Paris, 1760s","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Baker, Malcolm, and Brenda Richardson (eds.), <i>A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum</i>, London: V&A Publications, 1999.","id":"AUTH348910"},"details":"","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"Snodin, Michael (ed.), <i>Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill</i>, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009","id":"AUTH351457"},"details":"p.311","free":""},{"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. 232."},{"reference":{"text":"Silvia Davoli, Lost Treasures of Strawberry Hill: Masterpieces from Horace Walpole's Collection (London: Scala, 2018)","id":"AUTH354822"},"details":"p.78","free":""},{"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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