Tazza
1550-1600 (made)
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This type of shallow dish on a foot is called a tazza. It was often used for serving 'sweetmeats'. These were the different sorts of sugared and spiced fruits, conserves, biscuits and other confectionery that made up the final 'sweet' course of a banquet.This example is made of colourless glass into which the glass maker incorporated opaque white glass 'canes' during the glass blowing process. Glass workers prepared the canes in advance by drawing out a blob of molten glass to form a long thread. This thread would cool very quickly after which the glass worker could break it into short sections.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Mould-blown filigree glass (a fili and a retorti) |
| Brief description | Tazza, blown filigree glass, Italy (Venice) or Netherlands (possibly Antwerp or Middelburg), 1550-1600 |
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| Credit line | Wilfred Buckley Collection |
| Summary | This type of shallow dish on a foot is called a tazza. It was often used for serving 'sweetmeats'. These were the different sorts of sugared and spiced fruits, conserves, biscuits and other confectionery that made up the final 'sweet' course of a banquet.This example is made of colourless glass into which the glass maker incorporated opaque white glass 'canes' during the glass blowing process. Glass workers prepared the canes in advance by drawing out a blob of molten glass to form a long thread. This thread would cool very quickly after which the glass worker could break it into short sections. |
| Bibliographic reference | F.-A. Dreier, Glaskunst in Hessen-Kassel, 1969, no. 9: same cane-formation and also mould-blown, in piece from the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Kassel, datable 1583-84. In the glashouse in Kassel there were some glasblowers that also worked at Antwerp and Middelburg. Fragments related to this piece found in Middelburg (seen by me in coll B. Blok, Noordwijk). Other examples attributable to Southern Netherlands. The glasshouse in Kassel only worked for a very short time. Can't have been a big production. Cf. Theuerkauf-Liederwald, Coburg catalogue 1994, nr. 197, p. 226 |
| Other number | 8401 - Glass gallery number |
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| Accession number | C.202-1936 |
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| Record created | December 13, 1997 |
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