Sicard Coffee Service

Coffee service comprising a 20 cm high coffee pot, a 13 cm sugar bowl, an 11 cm milk jug, a 9 cm cream jug and six 6 x 6 cm cups with their saucers. The service features Louis Sicard's signature in blood red, indicating that it was made around 1900. Pieces from this period are the most sought after. Louis Sicard (1871-1946), descendant of a family of ceramists, worked at the Remuzat earthenware factory in Aubagne from 1890. From 1922, he rented it then bought it in 1926 and gave it his name. He is known for having decorated all his pieces with the Provençal tradition and especially with the famous cicadas which have made him famous. Appreciated by celebrities ranging from Queen Victoria to Frédéric Mistral via Jean Jaurès and Gaston Doumergue, it was then copied by other ceramists throughout the south of the country, from Uzes to Marseille and even Vallauris. The activity of the Sicard house continues today.

sources: catalog of the exhibition “Of workshops and men” at the Thérèse Neveu workshop in 2001. Lands of memory; Argilla 1995