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A small Venetian tazza, 16th century

29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £2,550 inc. premium

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A small Venetian tazza, 16th century

The shallow circular tray moulded with a honeycomb pattern, the rim with two parallel trailed bands in deep blue glass with faint traces of granular gilding, a thicker blue band folded around the edge of the spreading foot, 21.9cm diam, 7.1cm 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

A honeycomb-moulded tazza of similar size is in the Frankfurt Museum für Kunsthandwerk, illustrated in the catalogue Glas (1973), p.69, no.130.

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