a venetian enamelled tazza

16TH CENTURY

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a venetian enamelled tazza
16th century
The centre enamelled in yellow, green and blue with a lion standing on a mound beneath a sun with radiating rays and a river at its feet, within a circular white and iron-red cartouche and a border of gilt fan-ornament enriched with blue, green, iron-red and white dots, on a baluster knopped stem with merese and conical spiral-twist foot (the enamels slightly worn)
15.8 cm. (6 1/4 in.) diam.

Literature

Cf. Museum fr Kunsthandwerk, Catalogue, p. 66, no. 122;
Tait, H., The Golden Age of Venetian Glass, 1979, p. 29, no. 5
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
Hetts, K., Venezianische Glas, pl. 7

Lot Essay

Three other similar tazze were sold in our London Rooms on 16 October 1990, lot 248, 15 June 1994, lot 184, and 7 October 1996, lot 83

See illustration and front cover

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