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Owl Punch-Bowl, by the Martin Brothers

Image attached to C.41 & A-1928

An image of Owl. Martin Brothers, Southall. Martin, Robert Wallace (British, 1843-1923). Stoneware jar and lid, modelled in the shape of an owl, painted with cream, grey and brown coloured slips, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 103cm, diameter, whole, 35.5cm, height, head, 38.5cm, 1903.

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Owl. Martin Brothers, Southall. Martin, Robert Wallace (British, 1843-1923). Stoneware jar and lid, modelled in the shape of an owl, painted with cream, grey and brown coloured slips, and salt-glazed, height, whole, 103cm, diameter, whole, 35.5cm, height, head, 38.5cm, 1903.

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  • Accession Number: C.41 & A-1928
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 690 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 543.50kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2012:09:11 14:34:15

Key words

20th Century birds bowl British ceramics Edwardian English feathers Fitz_AA glazed Martin Brothers owls punch bowl Robert Wallace Martin salt-glazed stoneware vessel wine vessel zoomorphic

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