The ornaments proposed at the beginning of the twentieth century by the Doccia Manufactory favor the floral motifs linked to the popularity of the Art Nouveau language, introduced by the artistic director Luigi Tazzini.
This vase with a smooth body and long neck is embellished with a stylized painted decoration depicting blue cyclamens and green leaves on a very pale green background. The golden lines, drawn graphically in imitation of the curves of the stems, roughly outline the shapes of the corollas and foliage. The sign, by breaking, helps to increase the sense of two-dimensionality given by the synthetic representation.
Similar representations can be found in works in private collections, while a vase with cyclamens entirely made with a gold sign on a bright blue background is kept at the Ginori Museum (inv. 2783). This was presented by Richard-Ginori at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin in 1902. We deduce that already at that time this type of decoration was carried out at Doccia.
