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PLAQUES
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923) Cupid and Girl at the Spring, a pair of painted terracotta panels, cast in relief, Girl at the Spring modelled as variant naked lady, later framed incised R W Martin, indistinct date to Girl at the Spring, 68 x 33cm (panels)
Provenance
Samuel Avery, who purchased from the pottery directly. Dawson’s 21st September 2019, lot 217.
Private collection.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 22 figure 19 for a photograph of Cupid and Girl at the Spring panels exhibited by Robert Wallace Martin at the Royal Academy in 1867 and 1869.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
Young Queen Victoria and Queen Victoria, 1897 two terracotta portrait plaques, in later frame incised R W Martin Sc 1897 14.2cm. diam. (each)
Provenance
Private collection.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
Sgrafitto, (Portrait of Edwin Martin) terracotta plaque, framed incised title and RWMartin The Pottery, London 31.5cm. square (plaque)
Provenance
Private collection.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
James Angus Martin, 1863 plaster plaque, highlighted in colours, framed titled JA Martin, dated 1863 50 x 43cm.
Provenance Private collection.
Exhibited Royal Academy, 1863
Literature
Malcolm Haslam, The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis Publications, page 19, figure 13 this panel illustrated from a photograph taken by Robert Wallace Martin.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
Sir William Richard Drake FSA, 1888 a terracotta plaque, oval panel, in oak frame incised R W Martin Sct Oct 1888, 50 x 39cm (panel)
Provenance
The George Twyman Collection of Martin Ware. British Art Pottery, Woolley and Wallis Auctioneer’s, 27th November 2019, lot 51.
Private collection.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 82 figure 103 for a portrait medallion of Sir William Drake, dated 1887, illustrated. This portrait of Drake, the chairman of the Burlington Fine Arts Club, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
South London Working Classes Industrial Exhibition, 1865 a bronze medal of merit designed by Robert Wallace Martin, and a London Annual International Exhibition of All Fine Arts Industries and Inventions medal awarded to Robert Wallace Martin, catalogue number 3738, both in original presentation cases, signed in the cast 5cm. diam.
Provenance Private collection.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
Portrait of a Woman, carved marble, possibly Robert Wallace’s wife or mother, oval signed R W Martin 35cm. high
Provenance Private collection.
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Robert Wallace Martin (18431923)
The Southall Art Pottery, 1882 a stoneware plaque depicting the wheel boy, bench boy and Edwin Bruce Martin throwing, glazed in colours titled top left corner, sculptor Robert Wallace Martin, Southall 1882, bottom right corner, incised to the reverse Martin Brothers 7.1883, 42.5 x 18cm.
Provenance
Private collection.
Catalogue notes
This plaque was reproduced after the engraving by Cassells in the Magazine of Art article, 1882. The plaques were produced in a limited edition and the limited number was represented by the number of panes in the fictitious window behind Edwin Bruce Martin this example being number twelve.
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A Martin Brothers stoneware bust of Samuel Pickwick GCMPC by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1906, glazed white, incised title and R W Martin Sc, RWM & Bros 1906, 11cm. high
Provenance
Private collection.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 136 figure 213 for a comparable example illustrated.
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A Martin Brothers stoneware figure of Mr Pickwick Snoring
Comfortably by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1914, modelled asleep in a wheelbarrow, saltglazed, incised R W Martin & Bros Southall, 11-1914, titled Pickwick, 6.5cm. wide
Provenance
Private collection.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 136 figure 213 for a comparable example illustrated.
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A rare Martin Brothers stoneware figure of Moses by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1879, modelled standing on a rocky outcrop, writing in a book, glazed in colours incised R W Martin Southall, 1879, 14cm. high
Provenance
Private collection.
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A rare Martin Brothers stoneware The Welsh Bard player by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 80, modelled on a rocky outcrop playing a harp, glazed matt brown, incised R W Martin 80, 17cm. high
Provenance Martin Brothers Pottery Exhibition, Richard Dennis, 1978, catalogue number 713.
Private collection.
Literature
Malcolm Haslam The Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, page 51 figure 56 for another example.
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A rare Martin Brothers stoneware model of a gardener by Robert Wallace Martin, modelled kneeling and planting a plant, between two plant pots, incised R W Martin, Southall, 11.5cm. wide, 11cm high
Provenance With AD Antiques.
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The Norwich Bellman a Martin Brothers stoneware figure by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1891, covered in a white glaze, on ebonised wood base, incised R W Martin & Bros, London & Southall, 7-1900, and titled The Norwich Bellman, 1891, 16.5cm. high
Provenance Private collection.
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A unique Martin Brothers Weasel sculpture by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1888, naturalistically modelled and glazed in colours, on oval base, incised Sketch of a Weasel caught at the pottery Dec 1888, to the base rim, incised RWMartin Southall Middx, 17cm. wide
Provenance
Arts and Crafts, Woolley and Wallis, 19th June 2013, lot 120.
Private collection.
