Traditionally used by European ceramic manufacturers to model the handles of coolers and tureens, the acanthus leaf with its jagged scrolls is the sole protagonist of the decorative motif of this vase, attributed on a stylistic basis to Giovanni Gariboldi.
Reinterpreting the ancient motif of the acanthus leaf, the designer used it as a precious lace motif covering the aqua green base of the neck of this flattened ovoid-shaped vase.
This creation dates back to around 1946 when the production of art ceramics, interrupted due to the Second World War, resumed both in the Manifattura di Doccia and in the S. Cristoforo factory.
Gariboldi used more or less stylized lobed leaf motifs in several of his earthenware models datable to the same year (modd. 7416, 7418, 7479, 7483) some examples of which were donated by the Richard-Ginori to the International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza, where they are still displayed (invv. 1386, 1396, 1452).
The Museo Ginori owns another similar porcelain vase, but larger in size and painted in light yellow (inv. 3278; model 2128s, decoration 1991E) and a vase in which the same leaf motif frames a figurative bas-relief decoration (inv. 3558; model 2131s decoration 1995e).
