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Tazza
Small tazza, possibly intended as a wafer holder, good translucency and a lustrous glaze, stained yellow at the top of the stem and on one side of rim. Standing on a stepped trumpet foot and stem, terminating in a flange, shallow waisted bowl with moulded and everted rim. Decorated with a gilt band to the foot, and with two broad gilt lines around the stem, the exterior of the dish decorated with a pattern of gilt swags, gilt line at the shoulders below a band of gilt tulip heads; the interior painted with two sprays of garden flowers within a seeded gold border edged with foliate scrolls.
Collection Area
Art
Item Number
NMW A 32329
Acquisition
Bequest, 26/5/1994
Measurements
Height
(cm): 7
diam
(cm): 10.8
Height
(in): 2
diam
(in): 4
Techniques
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
jolleyed
forming
Applied Art
enamelled
decoration
Applied Art
gilded
decoration
Applied Art
Material
soft-paste porcelain
Location
In store
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