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Pottery:
Martin Brothers
Decorator:
Martin, Edwin
(Probably)
Salt-glazed stoneware jug with incised and painted decoration.
Thrown and salt-glazed stoneware jug with oviform body and wide neck pinched into a lip in front. The sides of the body are flattened to form eight vertical ribs; the handle, applied between neck and lower body, is opposite the lip. Covered with cream slip and decorated with incisions and painting in blue, brown and buff to depict marine plants and sea-creatures in water. The rim and base are outlined in brown. The underside is slightly concave and mainly unglazed, with the makers' name and date 9-1890 incised in script.
History note: Martin Brothers shop in Brownlow Street, London, where bought in 1899 by Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.5 cm
Height: 9.4 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Late#
Victorian
Production date:
dated
AD 1890
Robert Wallace Martin (1843-24) and his brothers Walter (1857-1912) and Edwin (1860-1915) were amongst the first ‘artist-potters’ of the late nineteenth century. They designed, made and decorated their own ornamental salt-glazed stoneware, originally using facilities at C.J.C.Bailey’s Fulham Pottery and, briefly, at Shepherd’s Bush. In 1877, they opened their own pottery at Southall, Middlesex, and by 1882 were producing some 5,000 pieces a year. Wallace had originally trained as a sculptor, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy and elsewhere from c.1863. His younger brothers had learned their skills at Doulton’s, Walter as a thrower and chemist, Edwin as a decorator. Modelled work is generally attributed to Wallace, but otherwise it is thought that the three learned from each other, exchanging skills and sharing roles. A fourth brother, Charles (1846-1910), sold the products – known as ‘Martin-ware’ – from a shop at Brownlow Street, London.
This is one of a number of examples of Martin Brothers’ vases and jugs decorated with an all-over pattern of marine life, which were inspired by Japanese work. The decoration is generally thought to be by Edwin Martin, though Malcom Haslam suggests that Walter E Willy, who worked for the Martins until 1899, may have originally drawn the fish with comical faces (Haslam, 1978,p.71).
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
Whole Incl. Handle
Width 18 cm
Width 7 in
Body
Inscription present: the s in Bros is raised
Inscription present: rectangular black label handwritten in black ink
Accession number: C.1224-1928
Primary reference Number: 71621
Old object number: 961
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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