British Art Pottery - 27th November 2019
Lot 32
A Martin Brothers stoneware gourd vase by Edwin and Walter Martin
Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £1300
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Description
A Martin Brothers stoneware gourd vase by Edwin and Walter Martin, dated 1901, tapering, cylindrical form, painted with brown spots on a buff ground, incised 6-1901 and marks original paper label, 10.5cm. high
Provenance
F.D Spooner collection, Sotheby's Belgravia 31st March 1976 lot 472 (probably this vase)
Martin Brothers Pottery, Richard Dennis Gallery catalogue number 679, purchased by Rhys Morgan.
Rhys Morgan collection, purchased by Daryl in 1982 from Rhys.
Exhibition
Martin Brothers Pottery, Richard Dennis Gallery, 1978 catalogue number 679.
Gorgeously Grotesque Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, 2003, catalogue number 42.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Pottery, Richard Dennis Publications, page 119 this vase illustrated.