Vase with wing handles

This vase with pierced wing handles, decorated with arabesques and stylized flowers in blue and ruby lustre, belongs to the 19^th century production of ceramics inspired by Hispano-Moresque models from the 14^th and 15^th centuries. These types of products first appear in the sales and commission records of the Ginori factory compiled for the 1878 Universal Exposition in Paris. 

The vase in question follows, albeit with small variations, the shape of a famous 15th-century example acquired in 1863 by the then South Kensington Museum in London, today the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 8968-1863). 

The decoration, of which the stencil is in the Museo Ginori archives, is instead an eclectic reinterpretation of Arabesque motifs certainly attributable to the decorators at the Doccia factory.