This mesciroba vase in polychrome painted maiolica features a "a raffaellesche" decoration on the body, while a satyr, almost functioning as a handle, supports a leaf at the mouth, which takes the shape of a pourer. The mythological figure resting on the rim recalls solutions adopted between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for bronze and silver vases.
The design of the Museo Ginori specimen is attributed to the painter Giovanni Muzzioli, to whom only the creation of a second vase at the Doccia factory is certainly credited.
The vase model (mod. 244) was present at the Milan Exhibition of 1881, Rome of 1889, and Palermo of 1891. The decoration of our specimen is still listed in a catalog of Ginori artistic maiolica products dated around 1905, but we do not know exactly when it was introduced. Besides the "a raffaellesche" version, there was also a decoration with groups of swallows flying in the blue sky, documented in the Museo Ginori archive by a watercolor drawing (inv. Disegni/110) and certainly exhibited at the 1888 Italian Exhibition in London.
