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Tazza
Tazza or kylix, earthenware, in the shape of an ancient Greek kylix, standing on a short pedestal with spreading foot, the main body plate-shaped with gently curving spreading sides, plain horizontal loop handles to either side, part of one handle broken off; the decoration reserved against a black enamel ground, so that the red earthenware body is revealed, this then transfer-printed in black with to the centre of the well a semi-naked female figure in a dancing pose with a wreath around her head, around the edge of the well a double border of a palmette pattern and a tongue pattern.