Tree trunk-shaped vase with female figure

This vase-sculpture in white and biscuit porcelain represents a nude female figure emerging from the trunk of a tree. The focus is on the purity of the material, untouched by any painted 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 manufacturers at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition and brought notes and drawings back to Doccia. 

Of this composition, which seems to almost take on a symbolic meaning, with the small figure emerging from darkness towards the light, a maquette is preserved in the Archive of the Ginori Museum that closely resembles the final execution, except for the right arm’s position of the figure, which was changed after reconsideration (inv. Disegni 2707).