Chaffers quotes from an official report as follows: "Concerning the manufactory of Japanese porcelain, it was commenced only in 1765, your excellencies were eye-witnesses of its rapid progress and therefore deservedly protected and assisted him. He now works with three furnaces, and has erected a fourth, a very large one, for the manufacture of dishes. He has constantly in his employ forty-five workmen, including the six apprentices whom he has undertaken to educate, and from the date of his privilege, in August, 1765, down to the middle of December, 1766, has disposed of sixteen thousand ducats' worth of manufactured goods, etc., so that it may be fairly inferred that he will yet continue to make greater progress both in quantity and quality." At these works, for about fifty years, a great variety was made, such as vases, statuettes, both white and colored, plates, dishes, services, etc. The imitations of Chinese work were so good as to deceive many. The designs of Dresden, Sèvres, and the English workmen, were also produced here with great skill. Some excellent vases made at Venice are to be found in the collections in Europe. In New York, Mr. Barlow and Mr. Prime have some pieces which may be of Venice, or they may be of Chelsea, as the paste and the mark are almost identical. The marks of the Vezzi and the Cozzi wares are as follows: [Illustration: _Marks of the Vezzi and the Cozzi wares. The anchor-mark was used at Chelsea._] At TURIN and Treviso porcelain was made in the last century; as to the latter but little is to be said. Some pieces are known, upon which is the mark G. A. F. F. and the name _Treviso_ in script. Near Turin, at Vineuf, a manufactory was established about 1770 by a physician named Gioanetti. "It was noted for its fine grain and the whiteness of its glaze," says Chaffers; while Marryat says, "The glaze, however, is wavy and yellowish." It was sometimes marked with a simple +, at others with a =V= under the cross, and again as shown here: [Illustration: _Meaning Vineuf, Dr. Gioanetti._] NOVE--HARD PASTE.--Porcelain seems to have been attempted at Nove, near Bassano, in Italy, about 1752, by a man named Antonibon, who with his son afterward continued it till 1781 or later. Some elaborate pieces were made here, one of which we have taken from Marryat's book, because it seems to possess, what so few do, excellence and originality. It is in the Reynolds collection in England, and is some twenty-seven and a half inches high--a superb piece of work (Fig. 141). The business passed into other hands, and after 1800 it gradually went to decay.