tazza

Object NameHandled Tazza

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1800-1899

TechniqueFree-blown

SizeOverall H: 10.5 cm; Rim H: 9 cm, Diam (max): 16.8 cm; Foot Diam (max): 8.5 cm

Accession Number50.3.85

Credit LineGift of George D. Macbeth

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Place Made

Italy

Physical DescriptionHandled Tazza. Colorless glass with alternating opaque French blue latticinio and aventurine paired spiral canes; free-blown, the expanded canes forming pronounced ribs. Wide flaring shallow conical bowl with cusped rim and small blob of colorless glass at each point; bowl attached by colorless merese to flaring pedestal foot with top folded rim; applied colorless vermicular or crimped collar at top of pedestal; applied and opposing colorless loop handles with looped end attached on underside of bowl and decorated with gilded pincered trailing or quilling.
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