Wine cup on high foot (Tazza), 1599, British, London, Silver-gilt, Height: 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Metalwork-Silver, The broad, shallow bowl of this wine cup is a borrowing into silver design of a Venetian glass form popular in the second half of the sixteenth century. Although few glass examples survive, we know of their use from Italian paintings, in which typically a dimpled ground in the bowl served to enhance the sparkling, light-filled character of the wine
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