Jacques Sicard / Weller Pottery French Art Nouveau iridescent vase c. 1901-1907

JACQUES SICARD (décor) (1865-1923) France

WELLER POTTERY (form) Zanesville, OH

Vase c. 1901-1907

Earthenware with handpainted multicolored iridescent glaze

Other works by Sicard illustrated: Decorative Art 1880-1980, Dan Klein & Margaret Bishop (Oxford: Christie’s Ltd./Phaidon,1986) p. 109; The Ideal Home: 1900-1920, ed. Janet Kardon (New York: American Craft Museum, 1993) p. 166.

H: 9″

In 1902, Samuel Weller invited Sicard and his assistant Henri Gelie to Zanesville, where they developed a spectacular line of iridescent pottery called “Sicardo-Weller”.   Sicard left the Weller Pottery in 1907 and never revealed the secrets to their copper-lustre glaze.