Mazer-bowls, also known simply as a mazer or a mazer cup, we drinking vessels first introduced to Britain in the 14th century. They were a bowl made of spotted maple wood, whence their name, and normally mounted in latten metal, silver or silver-gilt, with a wide band around the rim. Often a circular medallion was mounted in the bottom of the bowl, and the whole was finished by a foot or set upon a baluster. By the end of the 16th century were the most popular drinking vessels in Britain. Research Mazer-Bowl
Tazzas were Tudor-period small dishes or drinking vessels, not unlike a champagneglass, with a wide, shallow bowl standing upon a baluster stem, the whole standing perhaps six inches tall. In the centre of the bowl was usually mounted a medallion bearing an armed Roman head. Many surviving tazzas were given to churches where they were used as patens. Research Tazza
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