tazza
- Museum number
- 1971,0502.1
- Description
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Tazza (no cover); silver-gilt; wide, shallow bowl and low broad stem; bowl is decorated with a cellular pattern of circular lobes and the interior of the rim is engraved with an inscription, with flowers and a cross between the words; below the bowl is a compressed knop chased with quatrefoils from which a frilled collar overhangs the spreading foot which is chased with scalework and lobes divided by a corded rib and has a moulded border; hallmarks and maker's marks on the exterior.
- Production date
- 1528
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 21.60 centimetres (bowl)
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Height: 13 centimetres
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Weight: 894.60 grammes
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- Curator's comments
- From the similarity of their decoration, the two cups and one cover belong to the same set of cups with covers. Sets of this kind might be made up as 12 pieces. However three have different hallmarks; this one is marked L for 1528, and maker's mark of crescent with mulllet. The second has indistinct marks. The cover has London hallmark for 1532, P and maker;'s mark of a hanap within a shield, proving that all three pieces are by different makers at different times. The hanap mark also appears on a similar cup, the Arlington cup, proving that this maker was at the fore-front of the development of the Renaissance style in goldsmiths' work in London in the 1520s and 30s. These cups documented in Rochester Cathedral as pattens in 1672.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006-2007 28 Sep-7 Jan, London, Tate Britain, Holbein in England
2003-2004 9 Oct-18 Jan, London, V&A, Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547
1991 1 May-30 Sep, London, National Maritime Museum, Henry VIII at Greenwich
- Acquisition date
- 1971
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1971,0502.1