Notes On Venetian Ceramics

On the history of Venetian Ceramics very little authentic information has yet been published. Cavalier Vincenzo Lazari, who, in 1859, compiled a Catalogue Raisonn^* of the Correr Museum at Venice, deals more fully with the subject than any other Author I have met with. Of the Majolica manufactories of the Venetian Territory he writes as follows : — " On the subject of the Potteries of Venice, we know from the manuscript of Piccolpassof that the Duran- tine Master, Francesco or Cecco di Pieragndlo del Vasaro, had established a furnace in that city in 1545, and had taken with him his father-in-law, Giovanni Antonio da Pesaro. Mr. Rawdon Brown in his valuable preface to the " Calendar of State Papers relating to English afiairs, existing in the Archives of Venice,** vol. 1, page vii, mentions that this very interesting and instructive Museum was formed by Teodoro Correr, who was bom in 1750

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NOTES ON VENETIAN CERAMICS

CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDUM OF THE VENETIAN POTTERY AND PORCELAIN MANUFACTORIES

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