A façon de Venise tazza, early 17th century
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A façon de Venise tazza, early 17th century
Lowlands or possibly Spanish, circular with a slightly-dished top, decorated with a trailed blue glass chain between two milled clear glass trails, the spreading foot with a thin trailed ring and folded edge, 27cm diam
Sold for £875 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Tazzas of this type, copied from Venetian prototypes, were popular productions in the Lowlands and also in Catalonia. An example in the Museos de Arte, Barcelona, with diamond-point engraving is illustrated by Klein and Lloyd, History of Glass (1984), p.112 and also by Alice Wilson Frothingham, Spanish Glass (1963), pl.11

Category: Decorative Arts / Glass

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