Vase with pierced wing handles

This vase with pierced wing handles, decorated with arabesques and stylized flowers in blue and ruby lustre, belongs to the nineteenth-century production of artifacts inspired by Hispano-Moresque models from the 14th and 15th centuries. These types of products first appear in the sales and commission records of the Ginori manufactory, compiled for the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition. 

The vase in question follows, albeit with small variations, the shape of a famous 15th-century example acquired in 1863 by the then South Kensington Museum in London, today the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. 8968-1863). 

The decoration, of which the stencil is preserved in the Ginori Museum archive, is instead an eclectic reinterpretation of Arabesque motifs certainly attributable to the decorators of the Doccia factory.