Tazza - dish or wall ornament made of twined basketwork. In the shape of a circular coiled dish bound together with orange strips and radiating strips in green, orange, purple and natural coloured reed around the rim. The interior is natural coloured and the underside is coloured in green and purple with an attached base which also contains red and orange coloured reeds.
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