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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
Another tazza from this collection with a bowl of very similar form was sold by Sotheby's on 14 July 1975, lot 293. Compare also to the example in the British Museum (accession no. S.471) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.52, no.52 and that from the Walter F Smith Collection sold by Sotheby's on 8 July 1968, lot 908 and illustrated by E Barrington Haynes, Glass Through the Ages (1959), pl.28c. Another in the Fitzwilliam Museum (accession no. C.118.1912) is illustrated in the catalogue (1978), p.70, no.147.