A VENETIAN TAZZA

Details

A Venetian tazza
Circa 1500, or early 16th Century
The shallow circular bowl of ogee profile, the underside moulded with radiating ribs beneath an applied trailed dark-blue thread, the wide everted border with a band of faint granular gilding within a folded rim edged with turquoise filigree thread, supported on a dark-blue ribbed knop enriched with gilding set between clear mereses above a high conical ribbed foot with upturned blue folded rim (stem repaired through knop and with chip to one merese)
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high, 11 in. (28 cm.) diam.,

Literature

Baumgartner 1995, pp. 36 and 91, no. 173.

Exhibited

Musée Ariana, Geneva, May-September 1995, no. 173.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

The construction of the present tazze closely ressembles two enamelled tazzi bearing the Arms of Louis XII of France (1462_1515) and his wife Anne, Duchess of Brittany who were married in 1499 (see Lanmon/Whitehouse 1993, p. 8, no. 1, and op. cit., p. 10, fig. 1.2 for the example in the Musée National de la Renaissance, Château d'Écouen). Also see two further examples of comparable form, the first in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (see Ritsema van Eck/Zijlstra-Zweens 1993, p. 17, no.1) and for the second in Kynzvart Castle, Czech Republic, see Lanmon/Whitehouse 1993, p. 11, fig.1.5.

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