British Art Pottery - 3rd December 2014

Lot 141

A large Martin Brothers stoneware cheese dish and cover by Robert Wallace Martin

Estimate £4,000 - £6,000

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Description

A large Martin Brothers stoneware cheese dish and cover by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1884, the base incised with a frieze of stylised foliage, the dome cover with a frieze of ducks flying above a river, a heron wading amidst the bull rushes below, in shades of brown, aubergine and blue on a buff ground incised 12 84 R W Martin & Brothers London & Southall, small hairline to rim of cover 31cm. high