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Object NameTazza
Made FromGlass
Dateabout 1600
Place MadeItaly, Venice
TechniqueBlown
SizeOverall H: 10.7 cm; Rim Diam: 12 cm
Accession Number60.3.17
Curatorial Area(s)
Exhibitions
The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time
Czechoslovak & Italian Glass
El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III
On ViewEuropean Gallery
Physical DescriptionTazza. Colorless, with yellowish tinge; bubbly. Blown. Shallow bowl with widely flaring fire-polished rim and rounded base; joined by merese and glue-bit and second merese atop slender blown inverted-baluster stem; attached by capstan to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark.
Provenance
Source McKearin Antiques
Untitled (White)
Josiah McElheny
2000
plate
Gordon "Don" D. Wier
designed in 1948
Brazilian
T. G. Hawkes & Company
1889-1900
bottle
Nippon Glass Company
about 1958
Vizner Collection
František Vízner
2010
Chung Ang Glass Industrial Company, Ltd.
1959