IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 137205 accession number: C.41 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The owl, of monumental size, stands face-forward, supported by six large claws splayed around a hexagonal base. The representation is naturalistic, but the bird has quizzical, human-like expression. Both head and body are finely modelled, with particular attention to the feathers, which are painted in shades of brown slip with additional marks in brown and black. The wings are folded behind, the ears are raised and the beak is open. The eyes, made as deep hollow orbs with the pupils cut out, are encircled by cream coloured radial feathers. The glaze on the body is thinly applied, giving a matt finish; the glaze on the face and head is thicker, and shiny. There are two holes drilled down through the base, behind the claws, to attach the owl to a stand. object type: Stoneware punch bowl modeled in the shape of an owl, the cover forming the head, painted with cream, green, grey and brown coloured slips, and salt-glazed. title: punch bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert Wallace Martin (d. 1923); sold at Sotheby's, 24 October, 1924 'Extensive collection of Martinware; old English furniture. The whole remaining stock of finished pieces of the Martin factory, the property of R.W. Martin Esq. (deceased). Sold by order of the administrator', lot 68; bought by Cyril Andrade for Dr Glaisher for £25. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/137205 PEOPLE ------------------- Martin, Robert Wallace Martin, Edwin Martin, Walter Lambeth School of Art Bohemian Club of San Francisco SUBJECTS ------------------- owl owl TECHNIQUES ---------- Stoneware jar and lid, modelled in the shape of an owl, painted with cream, grey and brown coloured slips, and salt-glazed hand building TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- modelling CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery category: Martin ware DATING ------ creation date: 1903 - 1903 creation date earliest: 1903 creation date latest: 1903 culture: 20th Century, Early culture: Edwardian CREATORS -------- maker: Martin Brothers maker: Martin, Robert Wallace DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.5 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 14 dimension: Height units: cm value: 103 dimension: Height units: in value: 40 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Extensive collection of Martin ware; old English furniture, 24th October 1924 World of British Stoneware A Catalogue of the Collection of Martinware formed by Mr. Frederick John Nettlefold together with a Short History of the Firm of R.W. 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