A Martin Brothers stoneware sundial by Robert Wallace Martin

A Martin Brothers stoneware sundial by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1888, stepped square base cast in low relief with radiating rising sun motif, and panels of foliage, the cylindrical column with foliage stems rising up to flaring capital cast and carved in relief with Aesthetic sunflowers, in shades of green and brown on a buff ground, verdi gris metal sundial inscribed 1634, incised R W Martin & Bros London & Southall, chips and firing cracks, 72cm. high, 32cm square top,

Provenance

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 in Weybridge, Surrey. This is the only reference to a sundial in the surviving Martin papers.

British Art Pottery, Woolley and Wallis 1st December 2010 lot 15.

Private collection