Tazza

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Object Name: 
Tazza
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
57.3.7
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 19.4 cm; Rim Diam: 27.4 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1500-1599
Primary Description: 
Tazza. Colorless, with greenish yellow tinge. Blown, mold-blown; applied. Wide bowl (with pontil mark) curving to shoulder, then curving back slightly to wide, short cylindrical part with outfolded rim; spreading mold-blown (12 vertical ribs) foot has applied broad thread of deep blue glass. Second gather applied to base of bowl and mold-blown (12 ribs swirling to left). Two blue threads applied to upper part of bowl and to edge of rim.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
Blumka Gallery, Source
Color: 
colorless
green
yellow
Technique: 
mold-blowing
applied decoration
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (2)

Islam and the Medieval West
Venue(s)
University Art Museum, Binghamton 1975 through 1975
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass
 

Publications (2)

Islam and the Medieval West (1975) no. G26; BIB# 18974
Three Great Centuries of Venetian Glass (1958) pp. 58-59, #45; BIB# 63296