An ornamental cup or vase with a large, flat, shallow bowl, resting on a pedestal and often having handles.
Wafer dish. Tazze were dishes for cakes, fruit, etc. and the bases for tall epergnes of smaller tiers. Usually tazza are wide cups and serving plates, they may have handles, and they are mounted on stemmed feet.
a shallow bowl on a stand
A wide shallow bowl on a centrally located foot.
Wide but shallow bowl on a stem with a foot; ceramic and metal tazzas were made in antiquity and the form was revived by Venetian glassmakers in the 15th century. Also made of silver from the 16th century.
The tazza is one of the hardest shapes to make well. It is a low bowl form and is used for champagne or possibly desert. It is extremely difficult to get smoothly contoured sides.
(Italian, "cup") An ornamental dish or cup on a stemmed foot. Tazzas were generally made for displaying fruit or sweetmeats, or as purely decorative objects.
A tazza is a shallow saucer-like dish either mounted on a stem and foot or on a foot alone. The word has been generally adopted by archaeologists and connoisseurs for a type of drinking vessel.
