Porcelain faience, relief and double-walled, with openwork appliqués. Painted with high-fired colored glazes on an ivory-colored base glaze, with gold contouring. Height: 47 cm Mold number: 2269 Wanda series Designer: Tádé Sikorski Marking: faint Zsolnay and Pécs inscription pressed into the mass Gold number 19. Hairline crack (stable) at the rim, no other defects. Tádé Sikorski was an architect of noble origin, industrial artist, husband of Júlia Zsolnay, and artistic director of the world-famous factory. His outstanding works were made in the styles of historicism and art nouveau. He was born on February 29, 1852 in Russian Poland, in Poręba (now PorębaDzierżna, Poland). He began his secondary education in the seat of the Russian Polish governorate in Kielce, then continued in Kraków, in the Galician province of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. He studied architecture in Munich and Vienna. From 1878 he worked in Vienna with Karl von Hasenauer, who built the Castle Theatre and the Vienna Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History. In 1881, the Austrian Ministry of Commerce appointed him head of the ceramics school in Kołomyja (now Kolomija, Ukraine) in the Galician province. Sikorski also made significant contributions as an architect. In 1883, he designed the so-called Sikorski House, which served as his family's residence, and was further expanded in 1886-1887. The building today houses the Gyugyi Collection in the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter.