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In 1756 it was transferred to Sèvres, to the south-west of Paris, and shortly after was bought by the king, Louis XV.  The Sèvres factory was conviently located on the road to Versailles, the seat of royal power. The support and protection of the king and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, enabled the factory to  secure the best artists, sculptors, designers and chemists. Sèvres soon became the most sought after porcelain in Europe.  \r\n\r\nIn the eighteenth century, vases were often displayed on furniture or chimney-pieces, usually in front of a mirror.  Rosalind Savill, in her catalogue of the Wallace Collection Sèvres porcelain states in her introduction that Louis XVI's inventory of  porcelain at Versailles shows Sèvres in most rooms, including sets of vases, or garnitures,  as they were known.   This model is known from 1769 with several variations in the shape of the handles, foot and lower part of the vase.  The panels on this example are painted with quaysides scenes  depicting officers and sailors handling cargoes.  This theme can be found on many Sèvres vases but is also sometimes found on teacups and smaller vases used for bulbs or flowers.  Known examples date from about 1760-1790 and the painter who  made this subject his speciality was Jean-Louis Morin (1732-87).  Rosalind Savill suggests that these 'marines' as they were known, were  possibly based on the work of Dutch seventeenth-century marine painters such as Ludolf Backhuisen or Johann Lingelbach, Teniers, or  contemporary French painters such as Joseph Vernet or Lacroix de Marseille, with the details being adapted for porcelain panels by the head of  the painters' workshop, Jean-Baptiste-Etienne Genest.  From the mid 1760s  onwards, the plain ground colours of the 1750s are often enriched with gilded patterns.  This is sometimes described as <i>pois d'o</i>r, <i>mouches d'o</i><i>r</i> or <i>sablé d'or</i>  in the factory records.  \n\nThis 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<i> ancien regime</i> 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.  The pair to this vase is probably the one in the Huntington Collection in San Marino in California.  It looks slightly different as the foot and cover of the V &amp; A's vase must have been broken some time during the  nineteenth-century prior to being bought by John Jones, as they are not Sèvres and appear to be English bone china replacements.\r\n\r\nSavill, Rosalind.  The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres  Porcelain ,  London: Trustees of the Wallace  Collection, 1988, 3 vols.\r\nGeoffrey de Bellaigue.  French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen , London, Royal Collection Publications, 2009, 3 vols.","physicalDescription":"Vase of soft-paste porcelain, <i>gros-blue</i> and œil-de-perdrix ground, painted with a coastal scene in enamels, and a bouquet within panels; short handles, and raised ribs and garlands.  The cover and foot of this vase are later replacements, probably made in England in the 19th century.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Sèvres porcelain factory","id":"A406"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"soft paste porcelain","id":"AAT10665"}],"techniques":[{"text":"painted","id":"AAT54216"},{"text":"glazed","id":"AAT53914"},{"text":"gilt","id":"AAT53789"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Soft-paste porcelain, painted in enamels and gilt","categories":[{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"},{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Vases","id":"THES48879"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2006AG8637","2006BD4215","2017KE1660","2017KE6889","2019LX1305"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"27","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"vase and cover","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1769","earliest":"1764-01-01","latest":"1773-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"This, the second size was introduced in 1768.  The inscribed '69' on the front of the chest being examined by Turkish seamen may refer to the date of production, 1769."}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"749:1-1882","id":"O1160345"},"association":"Model"},{"object":{"text":"749A/1-1882","id":"O332719"},"association":"Model"}],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by John Jones","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"49.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":"second of four sizes made of this model at Sèvres"},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"19.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The probable pair to this vase in the Huntington Collection, San Marino, California USA is 27.33B.  According to the Huntington Collection website, their vase's first known provenance was in the collection of Sir Henry Featherstonhaugh of Uppark.  It was acquired singly in 1810 for £500.\r\nThe cover and foot of 784-1882 do not exactly match its pair in the Huntington Collection as they have been replaced, presumably at some point after being separated from its pair and prior to its purchase by John Jones.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Vase with cover, soft-paste porcelain painted with coastal scenes in enamels, Sèvres porcelain factory, France, about 1769","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Savill, Rosalind.  <u>The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres  Porcelain</u>, 3 vols.  London: Trustees of the Wallace  Collection, 1988.  See Vol. I, for catalogue number C309 and a detailed discussion of this shape.  See footnote 3e for reference to 784-1882 and 3f to a similar vase in the Huntington Collection, California, identified by Savill as its probable pair."},{"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 further examples of this shape see vol. 1, nos. 68-70.  No. 68 (of the first and largest size made by the factory) has similar decoration to 784-1882, although the harbour scene has fishermen rather than turkish mariners and the gilded cartouche around the scene is plain."}],"production":"Acquired as second half of the 18th century, the coast scene by Morin (?) and gilding by Chauvaux senior; relabelled about 1765.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"ships","id":"AAT82981"},{"text":"seamen","id":"AAT136375"},{"text":"turbans","id":"AAT46127"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["784-1882"],"accessionNumberNum":"784","accessionNumberPrefix":"","accessionYear":1882,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-03","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-07","availableToBook":false}}