Pottery & porcelain · a closer look
Venice mark: Ven
Mark details
- Maker
- Venice →
- Period
- Undated
- Wording
- Ven
- Material
- porcelain, faience
- Place
- Italy
Notes
In brothers Francesco and Giuseppe Vezzi with the help of the German ceramist Hunger opened a hard porcelain factory in Venice. Kaolin was imported, contrabanded from Saxony.
Other Venice marks
c. 1500–1599
dark blue · faience
The caption places the mark at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
