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A Martin Brothers stoneware grotesque spoon-warmer, 1881
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August 12, 01:26 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A Martin Brothers stoneware grotesque spoon-warmer, 1881
by Robert Wallace Martin, modelled as a fantastical creature with broad grinning mouth, supporting itself on two feet, with pinched and incised ornament, the dark-brown body with black tiger-stripes, incisedRW Martin./London/& Southhall./2.1.81
13 cm high
16 cm long
See Malcolm Haslam, The Martin Brothers Potters, Uxbridge, 1978, fig. XI for a group of spoon warmers including three of similar type to the present example, see also p. 83 for a discussion of these bizarre and humorous sculptural forms which, from about 1879, Wallace conjured up from his vivid imagination.