A large and impressive Martin Brothers stoneware owl sculpture by Robert Wallace Martin

A large and impressive Martin Brothers stoneware owl sculpture by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1896, the long-eared owl with open beak, rotund body glazed brown with opaque white highlights incised 10-1896 Martin Bros London & Southall, firing cracks, 26cm. high

Provenance

private collection

Catalogue Notes

The large open beak suggests this sculpture could have been intended as a spoon-warmer or was just a fantastic development of the spoon-warmers modelled by Robert Wallace in the 1890s.