. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . has constantly in his employ forty-five workmen, includingthe six apprentices wdiom he has undertaken to educate, and from thedate of his privilege, in August, 1705, down to the middle of December,1766, has disposed of sixteen thousand ducats worth of manufacturedgoods, etc., so that it may be fairly inferred that he will yet continueto make greater progress both in quantity and quality. At these works, for about fifty years, a great variety was made, suchas vases, statuettes, both white and colored, plates
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . has constantly in his employ forty-five workmen, includingthe six apprentices wdiom he has undertaken to educate, and from thedate of his privilege, in August, 1705, down to the middle of December,1766, has disposed of sixteen thousand ducats worth of manufacturedgoods, etc., so that it may be fairly inferred that he will yet continueto make greater progress both in quantity and quality. At these works, for about fifty years, a great variety was made, suchas vases, statuettes, both white and colored, plates, dishes, services, etc. The imitations of Chinese work w^ere so good as to deceive designs of Dresden, Sevres, and the English workmen, were alsoI)roduced here with great skill. Some excellent vases made at Yenice are to be found in the collec-tions in Europe. In Xew ^ork, Mr. Barlow and Mr. Pi-ime have somepieces wiiich may be of Yenice, or they may be of Chelsea, as the (1 ihc mark are almost identical. The marks of the Yezzi and theCozzi wares are as follows :. rURm AND NOVE PORCELAIX. 281 At Tlkix and Treviso porcelain was made in the last century ; asto the latter but little is to be said. Some pieces are known, nponwhich is tlie mark G. A. F. F. and the name ^tcte^o in script. Xear Turin, at Yineut, a manufactory was established about ITTOby a physician named Gioanetti. It was noted for its fine grain andthe whiteness of its glaze, says Chaffers; while Marryat says, Theglaze, however, is wavy and yellowish. It was somethnes marked with a simple -]-, at others with a V underthe cross, and again as shown here: Meaning Vinevf, Dr. Gioanetti. NovE—IIaed Paste.—Porcelain seems to have been attempted atXove, near Bassano, in Ital}-, about 1752, by a man named Antonibon,who with his son afterward continued it till 1781 or later. Someelaborate pieces were made here, one of which we have taken fromMarryats book, because it seems to possess, w^hat so few do,
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