
John Sandon
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Robert Manners Collection
Caravaggio's painting of Bacchus painted c.1595-6, now in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, shows a tazza of related form filled with wine, confirming the intended function of shallow vessels of this type. Such glasses would have been made in Venice and in other parts of Europe alla façon de Venise, including in England where a group of related tazzas from Alnwick Castle have been suggested to be from the period of Verzelini.