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Provenance: Syon House, a London residence of the Duke of Northumberland. These were probably acquired directly from the Isleworth factory by Sir Hugh Percy (1715-86), Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex or his son. In the Northumberland archives at Alnwick Castle is the account book of Thomas Butler, steward at Syon House, who noted on 17 June 1767 the costs of hiring a coach and accompanying a 'French china painter' on a visit to Isleworth 'to see the China Manufactory there'. It is hardly surprising that the Percy family will have patronised a local manufactory so close to Syon House. These vases appeared in Sotheby's auction of property from Syon House in May 1997. Catalogued as Liverpool, the pair was bought by Roderick Jellicoe and included in his exhibition in 1998, see Anton Gabszewicz and Roderick Jellicoe, Isleworth Porcelain (1998), fig. 122. One vase is also illustrated by Massey, Pearce and Howard, Isleworth Pottery and Porcelain (2003), pp. 84-85, fig. 141 along with a number of corresponding biscuit shards found on the Isleworth site. See also Ray Howard's paper, Isleworth Pottery, Recognition at Last, ECC Trans, Vol. 16, part 3, p. 360, fig. 45, and Rosalie Wise Sharp, Ceramics, Ethics and Scandal (2002), p. 268.
