tazza
- Museum number
- 1981,0101.478
- Description
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Tazza; bone china, shallow bowl with two side handles on a stemmed foot; the interior with central roundel of a crowing cock at sunrise, flowers in the background; all painted in bright matt colours, reds, greens, blues and yellows, and all outlined in gold; the rest is glazed in mottled green shading to grey at the edge and lustred, with printed gold scroll-pattern border, the rim and handles also gilded; the exterior glazed in a bright green shading to blue at the edge, the stem in mottled blue on a green ground, lustred, with gilded rims and scroll-pattern borders.
- Production date
- 1925 (designed)
- Dimensions
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Height: 14.80 centimetres
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Width: 28.80 centimetres (max)
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- Curator's comments
- Text from J. Rudoe, 'Decorative Arts 1850-1950. A catalogue of the British Museum collection'. 2nd ed. no.198.
During the 1920s and 1930s Minton continued to produce richly decorated lustre wares of which this is a typical example. This tazza is described in the Minton Estimate Book for 21 October 1925 (Minton Archive MSS 1545) as 'Tazza, stippled ground, lustred and gold printed borders with Chanticleer centre' with decoration number OA 1508. This shape was also
produced with 'Ship' or 'Babes in the Wood' centre (the above information kindly supplied by Joan Jones). For a bone china dish with the same central motif and mottled ground, see P. Atterbury and Batkin, 'The Dictionary of Minton', Woodbridge 1990, 122, where it is described as part of the 'Rotique' range
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Some restoration to foot and one of the handles.
- Acquisition date
- 1981
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1981,0101.478
