British Art Pottery - 27th November 2019

Lot 7

A large Martin Brothers earthenware Dragon vase by Edwin and Walter Martin

Estimate £500 - £1,000 | Hammer £4000

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Description

A large Martin Brothers earthenware Dragon vase by Edwin and Walter Martin, dated 1898, shouldered form, finely incised and painted with fighting dragons in grey, green and yellow on a blue ground, incised 1 1898 Martin Bros London & Southall, repaired damage and losses, 45cm. high

Provenance

Applied Arts, Phillips, New Bond Street, 15th July 1982 lot 348, purchased by Richard Dennis for Daryl.

Exhibited

Gorgeously Grotesque Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, 2003, catalogue number 76.

Literature

Holbrook Jackson Martinware, published in T.P.'s Magazine, 1910, this or a near identical vase illustrated on page 1.