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The Morgan Aldobrandini Tazza: Vespasian. An Important Italian Renaissance silver-gilt tazza, circa 1560-80, the foot later the dish with guilloche border, separated by four columns into finely-chased scenes, one with pricked arms below a cardinal's hat, centered by a pedestal decorated with oves and supporting a fully-modeled figure of the Emperor in classical armor, crowned with a laurel wreath and holding a fleur-de-lys scepter, the patterned cloak held to his shoulders by two decorated screws, the pedestal engraved VESPASIANUS; the stepped foot and baluster stem chased with bands of profile heads, trophies of classical weapons, clusters of fruit, and masks, below openwork brackets and a disk with border of entrelac apparently unmarked except for 19th century French control mark on rim of dish, pedestal, and cloak of figure height 15 1/4 in. 38.5cm 90oz 2799g