- Pair of Vases
Venice, 1769
Produced in the factory of Geminiano Cozzi
Hybrid soft-paste porcelain
One jar inscribed and dated Primo Esperi-
mento in Grande fatto li 1$ Maggio iyσp Ne٧a
Privil[egiata] fabbrica di Geminiano Cozzi
in Canalregio (First large experiment [in
porcelain] executed May 15,1769, in the
privileged factory of Geminiano Cozzi in
Cannaregio). This jar also bears the Cozzi
factory mark—an anchor—on one side.
Neptune Vase: Height: 11% in. (30 cm);
Diameter: 10/2 in. (26.7 cm);
Signed Vase: Height: n^3 4 in (29.8 cm);
Diameter: 10^3 4 in. (27.3 cm)
Accession number 88 .DE.9.1—.2
PROVENANCE
Sig. Centanini, Venice, by 1889; Edmund de
Unger, Surrey.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Raffaele Erculei, Arte cerαmica e vetraria
(Museo Artistico-Industriale, Rome, 1889),
p. 151; Alessandra Mottola Molfino, LArte
delk porce٧ana in Italia (Milan, 1976),
p. 27; Francesco Stazzi, Le porcellane
veneziane di Geminiano e Vincenzo Cozzi
(Venice, 1982), p. 53; "Acquisitions/1988,"
GettyMusJij (1989), no. 85, p. 146, illus.;
Sotheby's Concise Encychpedia of Porcelain,
David Battie, ed. (London, 1990), pp. 9-10;
Catherine Hess, "'Primo Esperimento in
Grande': A Pair of Vases from the Factory
of Geminiano Cozzi," GettyMusJiS (1990),
pp. 141-156, illus.; Handbook 1991,
p. 217, illus.
ITALIAN CERAMICS 213
Vase .1 369 Vase .2 369
