English & European Ceramics & Glass - 24th November 2015
Lot 79
A façon de Venise tazza late 16th/17th century
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £1300
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Description
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 fur 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.