a month for 20 years, as well as legal protection. A pair of fairly large ( 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. They are painted in underglaze blue with a scene of Neptune, and an Allegory of Venice. The 1760s were profitable years for the factory, but a serious fire at the factory in 1771 was a major set-back, requiring the first of a number of re-financings over the next two decades. 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. He exploited this position by charging such a high price that Cozzi porcelain was more expensive in Venice than imported pieces. The price rose from 46 lire per carro (load) in 1765 to 100 lire per carro 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 reduced the effectiveness of these. It was not surprising that both factories began to make maiolica and then creamware, refined earthenware of the sort pioneered by the Staffordshire factories. By 1784 Cozzi had a stock of 118,000 pieces of porcelain, mostly old and out of fashion. Legacy 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. After an interval of some 250 years, the Cozzi name was revived by a new manufacturer trading as "Geminiano Cozzi Venezia 1765", and making bone china. Notes References Battie, David, ed., Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Porcelain, 1990, Conran Octopus, Chaffers, William, Marks and Monograms on Pottery and Porcelain, 1874 edition, online Favaro, Giovanni, "Old and New Ceramics", in Lanaro, Paola (ed), At the Centre of the Old World: Trade and Manufacturing in Venice and on the Venetian Mainland (1400–1800), 2006, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.), , 9780772720313, google