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tazza

Object NameTazza
Made FromGlass
Date1500-1699
Place MadeItaly, Venice
TechniqueVetro a fili, applied, tooled
SizeOverall H: 13.8 cm, W: D: Diam (max):
Accession Number64.3.6
Curatorial Area(s)
Not On View
Interpretive Notes
A variation on the goblet form found in England is the tazza, which has a similar base and stem but a bowl that is much broader than it is tall. The bowl was either vertically sided and dish-shaped or, more commonly, very shallow and turned up slightly at the rim. Tazzas of the early 16th century were usually decorated with various combinations of filigree, although they could also be plain or decorated with simple trails.
Physical DescriptionTazza. Colorless, white. Vetro a fili; applied, tooled. Circular bowl with flat bottom and flaring outfolded rim; joined to pedestal foot with rim strengthened by applied ribbon of colorless glass, and with pontil mark. Bowl is decorated with two bands of twisted white canes and, at bottom, with lacelike pattern of 24 canes arranged into nipt-diamond-waies. Foot is decorated with opaque white vetro a fili canes.
Provenance
Former Collection Wilhelm Henrich - 1964
Whitefriars Inkwell
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
1848
paperweight
Cristalleries de Baccarat
1930
Whitefriars Inkwell
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
about 1850-1860
bowl
Salviati
1950
paperweight
Whitefriars Glass Ltd.
1848