Circular with a flat top upturned slightly at the rim, decorated with a trailed pale turquoise-blue glass chain between thin clear milled glass trails, the spreading foot with a thin trailed collar and folded footrim, 34.8cm diam, 11.7cm high

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Provenance
Lady 'Lili' Maria Elisabeth Augusta Cartwright (née von Sandizell)
Thence by descent to her son, William Cornwallis Cartwright, Aynhoe Park, Oxfordshire
Thence by family descent to the present owner

Tazzas of this type, copied from Venetian prototypes, were popular productions in the Netherlands and these have also been attributed to Catalonia. They are illustrated and discussed in detail by Anna-Elisabeth Theuerkauff-Liederwald, Venezianisches Glas der Veste Coburg (1994), pp.111-6, nos.53-9. Similar tazzas are depicted as salvers for drinks or sweetmeats in contemporary paintings and the varying sizes in which tazzas with this decoration are found may indicate that some were intended to form tiered table centrepieces. The consistency of the form and chain-link decoration suggests that they may be products of one workshop specialising in these pieces, rather than products of several workshops producing glass in Venetian style. Two similar tazzas are in the Frankfurt Museum für Kunsthandwerk, illustrated in the catalogue Glas (1973), p.68, nos.127 and 128.

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