Tree trunk-shaped vase with female figure

This white biscuit porcelain vase-sculpture represents a nude female figure emerging from the trunk of a tree. The focus is on the purity of the material, untouched by any pictorial decoration or gilding. The adherence of the Manifattura di Doccia to the Liberty style in the very early years of the twentieth century is due to the direction of the Lombard Luigi Tazzini, who had the opportunity to see the porcelain creations in Art Nouveau style from various European manufactories at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition and had brought notes and drawings to Doccia. 

Of this composition, which seems to take on an almost symbolic meaning, with the small figure emerging from darkness towards the light, a sketch is preserved at the Ginori Museum Archive that almost faithfully recalls the final realization, except for the pose of the figurine's right arm, which was changed upon reconsideration (inv. Disegni 2707).