Martin Brothers Musician

10 R W Martin for the Martin Brothers, a Musical Imp playing the Banjo Apparently unmarked 9cm high, 9.5cm wide, 10.5cm deep Circa 1906

2 R W Martin for the Martin Brothers, a Musical Imp Playing the Drums This scarce example is all the rarer to have its drum sticks intact - losses of paint to the sticks The imp is l...

5463 Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers, a stoneware Musician Imp modelled as a Cellist on a later wooden plinth. Illustrated in Haslem’s Book “The Martin Brothers Potters...

5 R W Martin for the Martin Brothers. Bust of Samuel Pickwick on a Plinth Marked to the front “Samuel Pickwick GCMPC” (General Chairman - Member Pickwick Club) 11cm high Firing crack...

5465 Martin Brothers Vase decorated with Lizards amongst scrolling foliage and seedheads 31cm high Dated 1893

5429 Large Martin Brothers Gourd Vase in a Gunmetal glaze. The rim with impressed roundels. 24cm high, 11cm wide Dated 1905

A rare and important pair of stoneware grotesque amphibious creature andirons by Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers dating from the mid 1870’s. The heavily made andirons portray two grotesque amphibious creatures crouching on their hind limbs and bound back to back by a blue band. The creatures stand on a large rectangular stepped plinth base and are decorated in shades of ochre and blue, one slightly darker glazed than the other. Both have incised makers marks the edge of the plinth bases. Provenance: Acquired directly from a private US Collection. For a similar pair, see Bonhams, Decorative Arts from 1960, 26th November 2013. Lot 3. This pair of unrecorded figural andirons, are amongst the most unusual pieces of Martinware and are believed to have been completed as a private commission during the mid-1870s. These scarce and curious objects foreshadow the inception of the iconic ‘Wally Bird...

A stylish Martin Brothers stoneware vase of ovoid bottle shape with narrow waisted cylindrical neck and probably quite an early example dating from the 19th century. The vase stands ...

A rare Martin Brothers miniature stoneware art pottery vase decorated in brown glazes by Walter Martin and believed to date from the 19th century. This lovely little vase is of rounded bulbous with a narrow rounded foot and a funnel shaped neck with rounded opening. The vase is decorated in brown glazes with a slight textured finish in places with an exposed underlying white glaze revealed around the foot and top rim. The vase is marked partially indistinctly with a W M mark to the base. The vase is offered in good condition. Provenance: acquired from an extensive private Martin Brothers pottery collection. From the private collection of a Belgium based gentleman British Art Pottery...

An antique pair of porcelain figurines vases of a couple of musicians cellists in pink and blue. Pieces by Heubach brothers from Lichte, in Thüringen Germany DEP mark on the base and...

An extremely rare and probably unique two open-mouthed quasi-simian creatures arm-wrestling dish by Robert Wallace Martin for the Martin Brothers dated 1884. The stoneware shallow di...

An unusual and rare Martin Brothers tribute vase by A G Sangwell, but recorded by the collector as A E Sangwell the owner of a hardware shop at 25 Featherstone Road (confirmed throug...