A façon de Venise diamond point-engraved large tazza, 17th century
No reserve
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
the wide shallow tray engraved with a band of flowers and a scroll border, the underside applied with trailed translucent turquoise cabling within a pair of engrailed trailed bands, set on a spreading folded foot with applied waistband
Diam. 13 1/4 in, diam. 33,7 cm
Height 3 1/2 in, haut. 9 cm
Mallett at Bourdon House, Sotheby’s London, 9 March 2007, lot 966;
Where acquired
A tazza with similar diamond point-engraved flowers is in the Robert Lehman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 1975.1.1195, illustrated in D. Lanmon and D. B. Whitehouse, The Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. XI, Glass, 1993, pp. 90-91, cat. no. 27. A further engraved tazza of similar type is illustrated in R. Rückert, Die Sammlung des Bayerischen Nationalmuseums München, Vol. I, Munich, 1982, pl. 24, fig. 97.
