Vase
Jacques Sicard|S. A. Weller Pottery
ca. 1902–07 · Earthenware · The American Wing
The Weller Pottery hired the French decorator Jacques Sicard to produce a new line of of art pottery in 1902. It is distinguished by its elaborate decoration, usually painted on the surface in organic patterns, and its highly distinctive and unusual iridescent glazes. Here, the decoration of the thistle, complete with its spiny leaves and thorny stems emerge to enclose the thistle’s blossom in the shape of globe, accentuated on the vase by the round lobed form conforming to each of the plants. The background is enlivened with a network of dots, giving the vase an allover patterning.
- Artist
- Jacques Sicard|S. A. Weller Pottery
- Date
- ca. 1902–07
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020
