Jim Peake
Head of Department
Lot 9
A rare Venetian enamelled and gilded tazza, early 16th century
29 September 2020, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £6,937.50 inc. premium
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A rare Venetian enamelled and gilded tazza, early 16th century
The shallow tray with a folded rim and moulded with a honeycomb pattern, painted with a central lozenge in blue and gold incorporating an arrangement of dots, the rim with a gilt band embellished with a repeating series of pink dotted rosettes with red dot centres, between blue and white dotted borders, raised on a low spreading folded foot, 18.8cm diam, 6.7cm high
Footnotes
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 with related moulding are in the British Museum (accession no. S.376) illustrated by Hugh Tait, The Golden Age of Venetian Glass (1979), p.33 no.14, and in the Toledo Museum of Art (accession no. 1932.1) illustrated by Jutta-Annette Page (ed.), Beyond Venice (2004), p.144, fig.2. Another was sold by Bonhams on 14 November 2007, lot 11. See also the two honeycomb-moulded tazzas in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna (accession nos. GL 166 and GL 203).
