Creamer (part of a coffee service)

Jutta SikaWW-1901-124096

1901·Hard-paste porcelain with stenciled decoration·8.6 × 10.5 × 8.3 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/8 × 3 5/16 in.)

<p>Jutta Sika was one of a number of women who trained at Vienna’s progressive Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts) at the turn of the 20th century. She created this service while a student of Koloman Moser, a member of the Vienna Seccession and one of the founders of the Wiener Werkstätte.</p> <p>This service was produced from 1901 in blue, orange, and green colorways. The stenciled decoration of intersecting and free-floating circles are echoed by the circles piercing the various handles and the coffee pot’s spout.</p>

Catalogue

Year: 1901
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain with stenciled decoration
Dimensions: 8.6 × 10.5 × 8.3 cm (3 3/8 × 4 1/8 × 3 5/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Jutta Sika

Artist

Jutta Sika

Ceramics

Jutta Sika was an Austrian designer and painter active in the early twentieth century, associated with the Vienna Secession and the Wiener Werkstätte. Working across ceramics, textiles, graphic design, and painting, she developed a distinctive vocabulary of stylized flora and geometric ornament that bridged Art Nouveau sensibility with modernist reduction. Her decorative schemes and functional objects exemplified the Werkstätte's commitment to integrating fine and applied arts.

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