Firenze tureen with green leaf vine decoration

The soup tureen with lid, whose shape is called ‘Firenze’, features handles and a grip made of braided ribbon and is decorated with a border of stylized foliage composed of neat rows of small green heart-shaped leaves, supported and connected by reddish-brown tendrils. The ornamentation is completed by gold lines that underline the container’s contours.

This way of synthesizing the naturalistic element and rhythmically marking the surface with interlacing lines reflects the decorative trends of Art Nouveau, which the artistic director Luigi Tazzini interpreted at Doccia in both art ceramics and the production of numerous tableware sets. A similar decoration is illustrated in color with the identification number 3276 on a catalog plate dating back to the first decade of the twentieth century, where it is applied to a coffee set of the ‘Vigna’ shape.