British Art Pottery - 3rd December 2024
Lot 13
A Martin Brothers stoneware Monk bird jar and cover by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1905, modelled
Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £9450
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Description
A Martin Brothers stoneware Monk bird jar and cover by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1905, modelled standing on webbed claw feet, the head with balding pate, with broad, flat beak and forward expectant stare, glazed green, blue and brown on a mushroom ground, on ebonised wood base, incised 12.4.1905 R W Martin & Bros, London & Southall to head and base, small flat chip to side of beak, 21cm. high (2)
Provenance
Auty/Talbot family, thence by descent