Ginori majolica ornamental jug, Doccia (Tuscany) around 1880, after Italian model of the 16th century, large oval vase corpus with fully plastic male figure with divided fish tail, mouth as spout, holding two snakes in the hands, their bodies winding...

Ginori majolica ornamental jug, Doccia (Tuscany) around 1880, after Italian model of the 16th century, large oval vase corpus with fully plastic male figure with divided fish tail, mouth as spout, holding two snakes in the hands, their bodies winding up to the shoulder as handles, between them a felfiéed bearded male mascaron, figure and snakes painted in colour on glaze, Vase corpus elaborately floral and centrally decorated with winged angel's head in crowned heraldic cartouche, with further winged heads and cornucopias painted under glaze, in the bottom blue under glaze crowned maker's mark Ginori, numbered 107H06, painter's number 2 on the side, height 45 cm, diameter 17 cm, base broken off and glued. 2555-0003 Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.