A façon de Venise tazza, late 16th/17th century, the fine glass of a pale yellow hue, the wide

A façon de Venise tazza, late 16th/17th century, the fine glass of a pale yellow hue, the wide undulating bowl with moulded ribs and everted rim, set on a hollow inverted baluster stem over a small flat foot, 16.1cm high.

Cf. Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt, catalogue Glas, p. 71, fig. 131 and p. 81 for a similar tazza. Another tazza also related in shape in the Museo Vetrario, Murano, was shown in the 1000 Years of Venetian Glass exhibition, Correr Museum 1982, p. 116, no. 145.