British Art Pottery - 27th November 2019

Lot 9

A Martin Brothers stoneware Aquatic vase by Edwin and Walter Martin

Estimate £2,000 - £3,000 | Hammer £6500

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Description

A Martin Brothers stoneware Aquatic vase by Edwin and Walter Martin, shouldered baluster form, incised with grotesque fish swimming amongst jellyfish, a seahorse, other aquatic creatures and waterweed, in brown and white on a streaked blue and mushroom ground, incised 9 1908 Martin Bros London & Southall, 26cm. high

Provenance

Andrew Lineham, collection

Rhys Morgan collection, purchased by Daryl from Rhys in October 1982.

Derek Garrod collection, then re-purchased by Daryl from Garrod in 1993.

Exhibited

Gorgeously Grotesque, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, 2003, catalogue no.14