Marvelous floral compositions are displayed on this Vecchio Ginori piece, symbolizing spring. The highly detailed decoration is a reproduction of a design found in authentic documents conserved in the Factory’s archives. These were mostly acquired between the mid-eighteenth century and the first years of the twentieth century, to provide the hand-painting decoration (or ‘pittoria’) department with repertoires of designs they could draw on for new ideas and models. The elegant, rare motif gains its intensity from the colours and the exquisite gold used in the decoration. One example exists of this soup tureen dating back to 1760, which is housed in the Museum of Doccia Porcelain.