IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71623 accession number: C.1226 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The bird has a large brown beak, curved downward at the tip, its head is tipped slightly to one side and the eyes modeled to give it a comically wise expression. It has brown and blue plumage, with tufts of feathers around the eyes. The feathers are splayed onto the base at the back; the legs, painted with a yellow-brown stripe, each end with three toes spread across the base at the front. The makers mark with the date 5-1897 is incised in black script across the back of the base. object type: Stoneware, hand-modelled onto a press-moulded body, painted in cobalt blue and brown and salt-glazed. the jar is in the form of a grotesque bird. The cover, modeled to form the head, has a lower rim which sits within the body of the lower part; the base of which is fixed with nails onto a turned, circular wooden base-plate. There are incisions through the clay which serve as the pupils of the eyes, and at the top of the beak. object type: Stoneware tobacco jar, hand-modelled onto a press-moulded body into the shape of a grotesque bird, painted in cobalt blue and brown, and salt-glazed. title: tobacco jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought by Stanley Woolston at a sale by the Executors of Edward Thurlow Leeds Smith JP, (1837-1925) at Sandy, Bedfordshire, on 8 December,1925, for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, in Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £15 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71623 PEOPLE ------------------- Martin, Robert Wallace Martin, Edwin Martin, Walter Lambeth School of Art Smith, Edward Thurlow Leeds SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- Stoneware tobacco jar and cover, hand-modelled onto a press-moulded body into the shape of a grotesque bird, painted in cobalt blue and brown, and salt-glazed; the base fixed with nails onto a turned, circular wooden base-plate. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- hand-modelling CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery category: Martin ware DATING ------ creation date: 1897 - 1897 creation date earliest: 1897 creation date latest: 1897 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Martin Brothers maker: Martin, Robert Wallace DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Height units: in value: 9.125 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector A Catalogue of Martinware formed by Mr F.J. Nettleford, together with a short history of the firm of R. W. Martin and Brothers of Southall English Art Pottery 1865-1915 The Martin Brothers, Potters Later English and Continental Ceramics, 26th March 1991 Fine European Ceramics and Glass, 8th July 1997 19th Century Furniture, Sculpture, Ceramics & Works of Art, including property formerly from the Palacio Ferreyra, Argentina Ceramic, Art and Civilisation --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1226_20_26_20A_1928_1_201208_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 702 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1226_20_26_20A_1928_1_201208_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 729 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1226_20_26_20A_1928_1_201208_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 702 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: 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