A Venetian enamelled tray to a tazza

CIRCA 1500

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A Venetian enamelled tray to a tazza
Circa 1500
The centre enamelled in yellow, green and blue with a lion standing on a mound beneath a sun with radiating rays, within a circular white and iron-red cartouche and a border of gilt scale-ornament enriched with blue, iron-red and white dots (foot lacking)
12½in. (31.8cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. Museum für Kuntshandwerk, Frankfurt, Catalogue, p. 66, no. 122 and Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p. 29, no. 5. See also Exhibition Catalogue, Mille Anne di Arte del Vetro a Venezia (1982), p. 102, no. 111; the Journal of Glass Studies, vol. XII, 1970, p. 174, no. 25 and K. Hettés, Venezianische Glas, pl. 7.

Two other tazze probably painted by the same hand were sold in these Rooms, on 16 October 1990, lot 248 and 15 June 1994, lot 184.

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