Provenance

Possibly bought by George IV from Robert Fogg for £157 10s in 1815. The vases are described in his bill for the quarter ending 10 October 1815 as ‘2 – do – [Seve Porcelain Vases] Black & Gold Ground immitation of Japan £157 10s’.

By 1 December 1817 they had been placed one on each of two console tables by Adam Weisweiler in the Rose Satin Drawing Room (Bow Room), Principal Floor, Carlton House. After being repaired by Charles Brandt at a cost of £2 (‘Restoring the ornaments of 2 Porcelaine Vauses Mounted with Bells &c sent to Brighton’), they were despatched to Brighton, as recorded by Benjamin Jutsham in his deliveries’ ledger on 6 November 1819 (‘2 Seve Vases Black ground, with Gilt Chinese Figures & Landscape, in Gilt, richly Mounted in or Molu, with perforated Handles, & Dragons on the Top & ornamental Bells, Or Molu Covers – & Small Base. From Bow Room’).

By 1824 they stood on a bookcase in the Library of Brighton Pavilion, where they are recorded five years later (‘A pair of Seve Porcelain Vases, black ground gold Land-scapes & Figures, mounted with honeysuckle pierced tops, & borders, Canopy, bell, & ball edge, pierced key handles & cups with dragons over, Seve stems, scale ormolu bases, & leaf tops, square plinths, sixteen & a half inches (No 38 case)).’