A PAIR OF SILVER GILT TAZZE, GERMAN, 19TH CENTURYin the Renaissance Revival style, richly ornamented with embossed decoration, the domed feet with fruits and foliage, the stems modelled with bearded men in the full round, holding aloft the circular...
A PAIR OF SILVER GILT TAZZE, GERMAN, 19TH CENTURYin the Renaissance Revival style, richly ornamented with embossed decoration, the domed feet with fruits and foliage, the stems modelled with bearded men in the full round, holding aloft the circular dished bowl, decorated with a repeated motif of a Bacchic mask interspersed putti and centred by a roundel containting cartouches surmounted by a lion and bearing the date 1567, one bowl gilt, the other silver, apparently unmarked, each tazza approximately 330 grams in weight,12cm high (2)
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A PAIR OF SILVER GILT TAZZE, GERMAN, 19TH CENTURYin the Renaissance Revival style, richly ornamented with embossed decoration, the domed feet with fruits and foliage, the stems modelled with bearded men in the full round, holding aloft the circular dished bowl, decorated with a repeated motif of a Bacchic mask interspersed putti and centred by a roundel containting cartouches surmounted by a lion and bearing the date 1567, one bowl gilt, the other silver, apparently unmarked, each tazza approximately 330 grams in weight,12cm high (2)
