A Martin Brothers stoneware vase by Robert Wallace Martin

A Martin Brothers stoneware vase by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1878, slender baluster form with cylindrical neck, incised with a crane wading in a river, an eel in its mouth, glazed blue on a buff ground, the reverse with four flying cranes, the neck and foot modelled in low relief with geometric foliage bands, incised R W Martin Southall 3 1878, drilled for electric lamp, 41cm. high

Literature

Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 56 figure 62 for a comparable vase.