Cozzi porcelain

Production included sculptural figurines, mostly left in plain glazed white, and tableware, mostly painted with floral designs or with figures in landscapes and buildings, in "bright but rough" colours.

[3] The factory was started by Geminiano Cozzi, a banker from Modena,[4] who had been involved with Nathaniel Friedrich Hewelcke, a German porcelain retailer from Dresden (near Meissen), who had moved to Venice.

The factory, in the pottery centre now called Nove, near Bassano, was already making fine maiolica in fashionable styles, and continued to do so.

[11] A pair of fairly large (30 cm (12 in) tall) vases from the factory in the Getty Museum are of a different type from others known, and seem to be an experiment in a new style and body material, perhaps used as gifts to the Republic of Venice in thanks for its support.

Both the Cozzi and Le Nove factories used kaolin from the only known Italian source, Mount Tretto in the Dolomites, now in Schio, controlled by a Bortolo Facci.

[15] In 2016, the Museo del Settecento veneziano ("Museum of the Venetian Eighteenth Century") at Ca' Rezzonico on the Grand Canal held an exhibition of Cozzi porcelain, showing over 600 pieces from many collections, with a published catalogue.