The very fine conceptual operation performed by Marcello Grassi, by pairing the Fabbri vase with ancient Attic ceramics inside display cases, is univocal in the message it wishes to send and does not allow for other interpretations: not only is the Fabbri object cleared of its mundane context to become part of a museum collection, but it also joins the classics, therefore, as a historical find with an absolute value to be conserved with care. The work also touches the intelligible sphere in the friction between real and unreal, becoming polysemic and leaving the poetic possibilities of response open: if, in fact, the vase painting represents an anthropological document to be used to understand the everyday habits of ancient society, it is intriguing to shift the same operation in time, wondering how the ceramography of the 20th century will be interpreted in a “distant future”, what function will be assigned to the decoration “with blue figures” and how the writing will be codified. There will probably be talk of the Fabbri myth!