The type of flower vase with a perforated lid, quite rare in the production of the Doccia manufactory, was introduced into the twentieth-century repertoire of Richard-Ginori by Gio Ponti (mod. 715s, in the Museum collection inv. 3287).
This example belongs to a series of art porcelains of various shapes and sizes, featuring marine and floral subjects, designed by Giovanni Gariboldi and presented at the 1940 Milan Triennale.
The planter has a trapezoidal profile, fluted walls, and a removable perforated lid designed to hold the stems of fourteen flowers (mod. 1895s dec 2007 E). One of the larger faces is decorated with a small rectangular panel featuring white marine motifs in slight relief on a golden background. The strict elegance of the ribs, the delicacy of the reliefs, and the subtle combination of white, sprayed gold, and the unusual aqua green shade aim for an effect of composed and sophisticated refinement, evoking the patinated atmospheres of luxury interiors and high fashion of the period.
The green base, based on the progression of the decorative identification code (2007E), could be a later chromatic variant compared to those presented in 1940.
The Museum collection preserves another example of this same model (inv. 3606, decorated with a different color scheme cod. 1901E) bearing the decal signature ‘Giovanni Gariboldi’. The attribution is also confirmed by an article by Gio Ponti published in Domus in June 1940, which illustrates other models from the same series.
