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Martin Brothers pottery flies into Toronto Antiques Trade Gazette
Perhaps their most famous works are the tobacco jars with removeable lids in the shape of large beaked birds - these were known as the Wally Birds after their creator Robert Wallace Martin, the senior member of this family firm and the master potter. The four brothers were part of a family who had its roots in Suffolk.
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A Private Collection of Martin Brothers Stoneware December 06, 2017 Lot 23 Waddingtons.ca
The Martin Brothers - Robert Wallace, Charles, Edwin and Walter - were four brothers and pottery manufacturers in London that produced distinctive stoneware pottery from the 1870s and sporadically through to 1923. The brothers were best known for their bird and unusual face sculptures, bowls, and vessels decorated with sea creatures.
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The four Martin brothers—Robert Wallace, Charles, Walter, and Edwin—were studio potters who represented the transition from decorative Victorian ceramics to 20th century studio pottery in England. Robert Wallace Martin (1843-1923) trained as a sculptor. He attended the Lambeth School of Art, where he studied drawing, and the Royal Academy of Art.
Martin Brothers Glazed Stoneware Baby Bird Vase. Circa 1880. Etched Lot 63001 Heritage Auctions
Biography The four Martin brothers who ran the pottery were sons of a wholesale stationer's clerk. Robert Wallace (1843 -1923), the head of the firm, studied at the Lambeth School of Art from 1860 and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1864.
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The Martin Brothers manufactured pottery in London between 1873 and the early 20th century. The four brothers - Wallace, Charles, Walter and Edwin Martin - were pioneers in art pottery, but today, Martinware is considered studio pottery. The brothers produced a very distinct type of salt glazed stoneware until their studio closed in 1914.
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Martin Brothers Pottery Robert Wallace Martin (18431923) Wally Bird Covered Tobacco Jar
The modern market for Martin Brothers pottery has been defined by key exhibitions and the sales of important collections. Here is ATG's pick of five events since 1978.
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A good early 20th Century Martinware stoneware "Grotesque" bird, the detachable head modelled
The Martin Brothers Pottery was England's first late 19th-century pottery producing art wares and its work the most eccentric. It was founded in 1873 by Robert Wallace Martin, a stone-carver.
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The Martin Brothers pottery was founded by the eldest of a group of brothers, Robert Wallace Martin (1843 to 1923). Robert Martin trained in sculpture at Lambeth School of Art and later at the Royal Academy of Art. He set up the first Martin Brothers pottery in the 1860s, where he made terracotta sculpture.
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Martin Brothers Stoneware Jug with Floral Foliage Decoration Martin Bros. Ceramics
Martin Brothers Pottery All Auction Buy it now 5,992 results Colour Time Period Manufactured Condition Price Buying format All filters A Martin Brothers Saltglaze Stoneware Art Pottery vase. Birds amid branches 1879 £645.00 Click & Collect £6.50 postage 15 watching Rare Antique Martin Brothers Pottery Stoneware Vase Art Pottery £1,350.00
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Martin Brothers Pottery Wally Bird Covered Tobacco Jar. Painted & Glazed Stoneware. Southall
£2900 Martin Brothers Loving Cup Gift Voucher Martin Brothers Bird £19000 Martin Brothers Face Jug Martin Brothers Vase Martin Brothers Bird Martin Brothers Spoonwarmer £18500 Martin Brothers Figural Sculpture Martin Bothers Aquatic Vase Martin Brothers Gourd Martin Brothers Spoonwarmer Martin Brothers Spoonwarmer Martin Brothers Vase
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The Martin Brothers Stoneware Pottery Established London 1873 Martin brothers, Pottery
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Guide to Buying Martin Brothers
Details A MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE 'WALLY-BIRD' JAR AND COVER 1891 Modelled standing, glazed in tones of blue, green and brown, on an ebonised wood base, the cover and the back of the base incised 'R.W. Martin & Bros./ London & Southall, 7-1891' 11 ¾ in. (29.8 cm.) high Provenance
Martin Brothers STONEWARE GOURD VASE C.1900
The four Martin brothers, Wallace, Walter, Edwin and Charles, were pioneers in the production of studio pottery. They became famous for their eccentric, grotesquely modeled 'Wally Birds', wheel-thrown and sculpted face jugs, vases and other items reminiscent of art and architecture of the Middle Ages.
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Sold Price Martin Brothers Stoneware Wally Bird Jar & Cover. Invalid date EDT Martin
Martin Brothers is one of the most significant names in the history of British pottery. Four brothers, working in London, conjured up idiosyncratic, whimsical creations that would represent the peak of Victorian art pottery and the beginning of 20th century Studio Pottery.
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Antiques Atlas A Rare Miniature Jug By Martin Brothers Pottery
The Martin Brothers were four brothers who set up a pottery manufacturing business in London. Working from the 1873 to 1915, they were famous for exuberant and lively work that was often referred to as the origin of 'art pottery', or studio pottery as we know it today.
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A MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE VASE . Martin Brothers, Lot 89024 Heritage Auctions Martin
The four Martin brothers were pioneers in the production of Victorian studio pottery. Renowned for their eccentric and fantastical designs, the brothers worked during the Gothic Revival and the Arts and Crafts movement - major 19th Century reactions to the Industrial Revolution.