Handled Tazza

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Object Name: 
Handled Tazza
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
50.3.85
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.5 cm; Rim H: 9 cm, Diam (max): 16.8 cm; Foot Diam (max): 8.5 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1800-1899
Credit Line: 
Gift of George D. Macbeth
Primary Description: 
Handled Tazza. Colorless glass with alternating opaque French blue latticinio and aventurine paired spiral canes; free-blown, the expanded canes forming pronounced ribs. Wide flaring shallow conical bowl with cusped rim and small blob of colorless glass at each point; bowl attached by colorless merese to flaring pedestal foot with top folded rim; applied colorless vermicular or crimped collar at top of pedestal; applied and opposing colorless loop handles with looped end attached on underside of bowl and decorated with gilded pincered trailing or quilling.

More Info

Department: 
Early Modern; Modern
Provenance: 
Macbeth, George D. (1892-1968), Source
1950-10-01
Color: 
colorless
French blue
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass