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ceramic
art \ the origins |
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Many are the elements that have promoted the creation and development
of ceramic art in Bassano and Nove since the 17th century. Among
them, the availability of plastic clay (?saldame? non lo trovo)
and kaolin in the subsoil, and the possibility to exploit the
Brenta river both to transport finished products and wood for
the kilns, and to activate the grinding mills by means of its
hydraulic force, in order to grind the pebbles found in the
river itself.
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the growing request of the precious
Chinese porcelain and its diffusion in Europe brought Dutch
ceramists to imitate this processing, with the result that this
kind of production spread all over the market of the Serenissima.
The Venetian Senate, therefore, tried to solve the problem by
stimulating the home production with tax relief for the ones
who managed to produce porcelain and to improve majolica. |
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