Tazza

Maker's Mark Cipher, apparently IB or SB

dated 1683

Silver

Fogg Museum

A circular silver plate is decorated with relief carvings of putti, fruits, and mythological scenes. The central scene depicts a group of figures in a landscape, surrounded by smaller circular vignettes and a border of fruits and foliage. Circular tazza on a detachable raised foot chased in high relief with a central medallion inside a husk border depicting Venus and Adonis in a landscape flanked by a putto and three hounds in repoussé; the border chased with four roundels containing putti representing the Four Elements interspersed with a variety of fruits and vegetables also in high relief against a matted ground; the detachable raised foot chased with two scenes of musical figures in landscapes interspersed with similar fruits and vegetables; wrigglework border. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Trustees of the estate of Mrs. Harry Paine Whitney, by exchang