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A rare and important early lead-glass tazza probably George Ravenscroft, Savoy Glasshouse, London, circa 1675-1680
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- applied small paper label to the foot inscribed 80 in ink
- 8.8cm. high, 3½in.
the deep cup-shaped bowl with folded rim, gadrooned on the underside and set on a trumpet foot with folded rim
Catalogue Note
Compare with the 'Goring Brewery lead glass salver' or tazza - 13¼in diameter, c.1675-80 (sold in these Rooms, 4th December 1967, lot 13, from the Walter Smith Collection, now at Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums).
With its plain hollow pedestal foot and heavy gadrooning to the underside of the bowl, The Goring Brewery Tazza underside was found on the premises of the Goring Brewery, near Henley-on-Thames where Ravenscroft set up his second glasshouse on 27th April 1674 (Kelsall 1989, p.24, Pl.Q12).
Both these pieces suffer the chemical imperfection of crizzeling which the glasshouses tried to eradicate. See aslo the footnote to the previous lot.