Tazza

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Object Name: 
Tazza
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice
Accession Number: 
60.3.17
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 10.7 cm; Rim Diam: 12 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
about 1600
Primary Description: 
Tazza. Colorless, with yellowish tinge; bubbly. Blown. Shallow bowl with widely flaring fire-polished rim and rounded base; joined by merese and glue-bit and second merese atop slender blown inverted-baluster stem; attached by capstan to shallow, blown foot with fire-polished rim and pontil mark.

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Department: 
Early Modern
Provenance: 
McKearin Antiques, Source
Color: 
colorless
yellow
Technique: 
glassblowing
Material: 
glass

Exhibitions (3)

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
El Greco to Velazquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III
Venue(s)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2008-04-13 through 2008-07-27
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 2008-08-22 through 2008-11-09
 
Czechoslovak & Italian Glass
Venue(s)
Museum of Contemporary Crafts 1964-09-15 through 1964-12-01

Publications (6)

The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian-Style Glassworking (2019) illustrated, Introduction fig. 11; BIB# 716365
The Techniques of Renaissance Venetian Glassworking (2016) illustrated BIB# 149619
The Yearning for Venetian Glass: Beauty that Traversed Oceans and Time (2011) illustrated, p. 43, cat. #. 10;
Glass: A Pocket Dictionary of Terms Commonly Used to Describe Glass and Glassmaking (2006) illustrated, p. 26; BIB# 96551
Jurors' Choice (2003) illustrated, p. 39; BIB# AI98544
The Corning Museum of Glass and the Finger Lakes Region (1993) illustrated, p. 5, #9; BIB# 35681