Description
A rare Martin Brothers stoneware fireplace, by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1881, nine architectural panels, incised with scrolling flowers and foliage panels containing serpents, dragons and mythical beasts, panels of oak leaf and acorns, the sides with further incised panels of scrolling foliage with birds and squirrels, glazed ochre, brown and blue and four other Martin Brothers stoneware architectural panels incised R W Martin 1881, other marks, impressed mark to bottom right corner, losses and damages 122cm. high, 142cm. wide
Provenance
The Albert E Wade Collection
