Enameled Tazza

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Object Name: 
Enameled Tazza
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
2002.3.36
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 8.3 cm; Rim Diam: 36.3 cm; Foot Diam: 14.8 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Credit Line: 
Gift in part of Ken and Sylvia Lyon
Primary Description: 
Enameled Tazza. Colorless, with grayish tinge; very bubbly. Blown; enameled, gilded. Shallow bowl with fire-polished rim, directly attached to shallow pedestal foot with infolded rim and pontil mark. Inside center of bowl is decorated with painting of reclining horse or donkey in gold on green field with horizontal black dashes, with stylized blue and black waves below; above is stylized sun in gold, with rays radiating toward horizon. Central design is surrounded by white circle and outer red circle; outer rim is decorated with repeating dot pattern in red, gray, and gold.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Lyon, Kenneth W., Former Collection
2002-11-21
Lyon, Sylvia Applebee (Mrs. Kenneth), Source
2003-01-16
Color: 
colorless
gray
Technique: 
glassblowing
tooling
gilding
Material: 
glass
gold
pigment
enamel

Exhibitions (1)

The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time
Venue(s)
Suntory Museum of Art 2011-08-10 through 2011-10-10
50th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition “Art revisited, beauty revealed” III

Publications (4)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011) illustrated, p. 38;
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 2002 (2003) illustrated, p. 8; BIB# AI93609
Recent Important Acquisitions, 45 (2003) illustrated, p. 203, fig. 2; BIB# AI59133