Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware jar and cover, 1880,

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware jar and cover, 1880, modelled as a downward facing bird with removable head and salt glazed in shades of brown, buff and ochre, incised marks and dated 20-3-80 to the interior of the cover and underside of the jar 19cm high Literature: Malcolm Haslam, The Martin Brothers Potters , London, Richard Dennis, 1978, illust. p.65, fig.XI Exhibited: London, Sotheby's, The Martin Brothers Potters , September 26 - October 14, 1978, cat. no.101 Provenance: Acquired by the present owner from a private American collection Sale; Sotheby's, New York, The Harriman Judd Collection: Part Two , lot 80 With some restoration to the rim of the cover and a large area of restoration to the body of the bird. A firing crack to the underside of the tail. Examined under UV.