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In 1762 Pasquale Antonibon reported to the state that his operation consisted of 136 workers in the factory and 100 "pedlars" selling the wares. He had four large and twelve small kilns, and owned plots where he could extract materials. By 1768 he reported he had 6,000 pieces of porcelain in stock.
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within five miles of Nove, affecting at least one rival in nearby Rivarotta. However, the Antonibons attempts to get a monopoly on the use of moulds were never successful. A local competitor complained of Pasquale Antonibon's "haughty and fierce nature" and the "authority and diligence" he used to
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in fashionable styles, which continued to be made alongside the porcelain. Production of porcelain began in 1762 and ended when Antonibon died in 1773. But it resumed in 1781, when Francisco Parolin (or Parolini) leased the factory for twenty years in a partnership with the Antonibons, known as the
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from 1770, then 110 from 1780. By the 1790s the Tretto deposits seemed to be running out. Both Cozzi and Le Nove lobbied the government hard to ameliorate this situation by monopolies and import duties, against each other and foreign manufacturers, but smuggling of foreign porcelain into Venice
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get his way. In 1773 the various privileges were renewed, except for the maiolica monopoly, which changing Venetian policy now deprecated. In 1778 new porcelain factories in the republic's territories were banned, to protect the existing three manufacturers, Cozzi, Le Nove and a factory in
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The Venetian government archives include extensive collections of petitions, complaints and reports throughout the 18th century documenting these efforts by the Antonibons and other owners, and some allegations of sabotage at the factories, enticing away of workers, and the theft of moulds.
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Before they began making porcelain, the Antonibons already enjoyed water rights enabling them to build grinding-mills, a ban (shared by other manufacturers) on their workers joining competitors without a four-year break, and from 1756 a monopoly on the manufacture of
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factory to learn their secrets. Porcelain production seems to have started in 1762, but was then paused until 1765 as Antonibon was ill. Some of the employees had by then gone to work for the Cozzi porcelain factory. By 1768 production was on a large scale.
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According to some scholars, the samples of supposed "Le Nove porcelain" sent by Antonibon to the Venetian government supporting a licence application in 1758 may actually have been made by the long-closed
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The factory had been founded in 1728 by Giovanni Battista Antonibon, and taken over by his son Pasquale in 1751. For his production of porcelain he hired Sigusmund Fischer, who had worked at
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In 1778 the factory, by then leased out, employed 120 workers making maiolica and 30 porcelain; in 1787, in the Parolin period, there were 37 porcelain-makers.
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from about 1765, though soft-paste pieces are still assigned dates after this. Some of the factory's products are also classified as
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The first two periods, under the ownership of Pasquale Antonibon and Parolin, are regarded as much the best, although
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describes some early pieces by the next owner, Giovanni Baroni, as "very charming", and notes the marks of
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Bassano was the home of the prolific publishing house of the Remondini family, whose large output included
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At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and on the Venetian Mainland (1400–1800)
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Both the Cozzi and Le Nove factories used kaolin from the only known Italian source, Mount Tretto in the
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itself, and used the same clays, so it can be difficult to distinguish between the two.
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Favaro, 294 (note) cites Arthur Lane, later supported by Raffaella Ausenda.
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factory in the 1720s, with painted decoration recently added in Nove.
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Favaro, Giovanni, "Old and New Ceramics", in Lanaro, Paola (ed),
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Warman's English and Continental Pottery and Porcelain
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was made in the 18th century in the town now called
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Index


Bowl with cover
soft-paste porcelain
Nove
Bassano
Republic of Venice
terrafirma
maiolica
soft-paste porcelain
hard-paste porcelain
Staffordshire
creamware
earthenware
Cozzi porcelain
Venice

popular prints
wallpaper

Meissen porcelain
Vincennes porcelain
William Chaffers
William Ewart Gladstone

Dolomites
Schio
lire
Vezzi porcelain
maiolica
Este, Veneto

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