Julia Zsolnay

Along with her older sister Teréz and Ármin Klein, she was the most productive and most important artist of that factory during its rapid development and worldwide success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Initially, these were Japanese and Turkish-Persian motifs, while her husband Tádé Sikorsky designed even more extravagant vases in the Spanish-Moorish style, as well as perforated double-walled vessels that have Chinese patterns.

[3] At the end of the 1880s, Julia's ceramic style reaches its peak in various decorative vessels - jugs with snake-shaped handles, modeled on forms from antiquity.

[5] According to the number of reproductions in the exhibition catalogs and monographs of the Zsolnay Factory, it seems that during the greatest rise of the company, Julia was its most prolific artist.

[6] In her seventies, she rejoined the production of the family factory, decorating large bowls with Japanese and Chinese floral patterns.