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Object NameTazza

Made FromSoda-Lime Glass, Enamel, Gilding

Date1500-1550

TechniqueBlown, mold-blown, enameled, gilded, applied

SizeOverall H: 7.2 cm; Rim Diam (max): 26.4 cm; Foot Diam (max): 12.1 cm

Accession Number51.3.117

Curatorial Area(s)

Early Modern

Exhibitions

El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time

Place Made

Italy, Venice

Physical DescriptionTazza. Colorless soda-lime glass; blown, mold-blown, enameled, gilded, applied. Wide, shallow circular bowl with wide, slightly rolled over and down turned rim with infolded edge; applied broad, short, straight sided pedestal foot with narrow infolded rim and pontil mark on base. Second gather applied to inner two-thirds of bowl and decorated with 12 mold-blown and gilded ribs swirling to left from large center with jeweled double quatrefoil having pointed lobes and inner semicircles formed by pearl-like white dots; within spaces so formed, red, green, and blue dots; on underside of flaring rim, jeweled and gilded scale band with alternating series of henna, blue and white, and turquoise dots at center of each of four scales on diagonal.
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