Tazza (cup)

Venetian glass tazza, c. 1550–1600 V&A Museum, London, no. 1860-1855

A tazza (Italian, "cup", plural tazze) is a wide but shallow saucer-like dish either mounted on a stem and foot or on a foot alone. The word has been generally adopted by

archaeologists and connoisseurs for this type of vessel,^[1]

used either for drinking, serving small items of food, or just for display. Tazze are most commonly made in metal, glass, or ceramics, but may be made in other materials.

The

Naples National Archaeological Museum

(Inv. MANN 27611), and is 20 cm wide.

The shape and the name are sometimes adopted for reference to very large sculptured objects, especially ones used for fountains. The colossal tazza in the

Nicholas II to August Heckscher

in 1910 and given to the Linda Hall Library in 1972 by Mrs. Helen Spencer. It stands as the focal point in the center of the Main Reading Room of the library.

Aldobrandini Tazza of the Roman emperor Vitellius, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c. 1590s

References

^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tazza". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 475.

External links

Linda Hall Library

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[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tazza". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 475.

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