Arts and Crafts - 17th June 2015
Lot 54
'Mr Pickwick Snoring Comfortably' a rare Martin Brothers stoneware model of Pickwick by Robert...
Estimate £2,500 - £3,000 | Hammer £2200
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Description
'Mr Pickwick Snoring Comfortably' a rare Martin Brothers stoneware model of Pickwick by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1914, modelled sleeping in a wheelbarrow, glazed ochre and brown incised R W Martin & Bros Southall, 11-1914 titled Pickwick 7cm. wide
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis Publications, page 136 figure 213 for an identical model entitled Mr Pickwick Snoring Comfortably dated 1906.