IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74206
accession number:	C.29-1972

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Thrown and salt-glazed stoneware vase of elongated ovoid shape on a splayed foot, with gently flaring neck. Covered with pinkish yellow-ochre slip, which gives the appearance of  pig-skin or pale leather. Incised decoration, filled with creamy-white slip and with additional grey and brown colours, depicting naturalistic flowers, insects, buds and leaves. The foot, external rim and interior of neck are coloured brown. The glaze is crackled. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised rim and the makers' name, and date 5-1901, incised in script.
object type: Salt-glazed stoneware vase with incised and painted decoration.
title:	vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bequest of Thomas Knox-Shaw, former Master of Sidney Sussex College. Possibly acquired from the Charles and Lavinia Handley Read collection.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequest of Thomas Knox-Shaw, 1972

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74206

PEOPLE
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Martin, Robert Wallace
Martin, Walter
Martin, Edwin
Lambeth School of Art

SUBJECTS
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insects
flowers
insects
flowers



TECHNIQUES
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Thrown and salt-glazed stoneware vase of elongated ovoid shape on a splayed foot, with gently flaring neck. Covered with pinkish yellow-ochre slip. Incised decoration, filled with creamy-white slip and with additional grey and brown colours,
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: salt-glazed stoneware
category: Art Pottery
category: Martin ware

DATING
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creation date:	1901 - 1901
creation date earliest:	1901
creation date latest:	1901
culture:	20th Century, Early
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Martin Brothers

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 11.0

dimension: Diameter
units: in
value: 4.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 9.25



CITATIONS
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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
The Martin Brothers, Potters
English Art Pottery 1865-1915
Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection
Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920
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