A Martin Brothers stoneware sundial

£2,500 - £3,000 £4,500

A Martin Brothers stoneware sundial, by Robert Wallace Martin, modelled in relief with sunflowers and bands of foliage, the base with incised sunrise motif, in colours, set with bronze dial inscribed 1634, incised R W Martin & Bros London & Southall 4-1888, minor damages 72cm. high Sir Richard William Drake FSA, chairman of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, in 1886 commissioned a sundial from Robert Wallace Martin for the garden of his house at Weybridge, Surrey. This is the only reference to a sundial in the extant Martin papers.

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