Page from the Richard-Ginori historical album featuring terracotta animals from San Cristoforo.

Page from an album of historical photographs (album no. 48, page 0023r), Richard-Ginori Manufacture. The page features two photographs: one depicting dove figures, and the other showing the terracotta deer from San Cristoforo. The deer (model 6667), in particular, is a well-known invention by Gariboldi, which also appeared on the cover of Domus in September 1936. Critics have noted that it derives directly from an Eastern source: a photograph included in the volume Keramic Art of Japan by J. A. Audsley and J. L. Bowles, Liverpool–London 1875, still preserved in the library of the Ginori Museum in Doccia. As Oliva Rucellai has pointed out, «compared to the Japanese model, static and unadorned, Gariboldi made the subject more expressive through the mane, which wraps the neck in soft locks, and through the dynamism of the right foreleg».