IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77065 accession number: C.41B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Square, carved and unglazed pedestal (almost a cube), with three arched pillars over an openwork oval trellis pattern on each of its sides. The corners are filled with a carved pattern which mimics the oval trellis. There are incised outlines to the main edges, and traces of tool markings and brown, blue and green colours on the sides. The top is flat and undecorated, except for the maker’s name incised in script; it has a waisted and chamfered edge, 4cm deep. The bottom is roughly made with a large circular hole in the middle. The whole is discoloured and marked as if it has been stored outside. object type: Carved, salt-glazed stoneware plinth title: plinth NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert Wallace Martin (d. 1923); sold Sotheby's, 24 October, 1924, 'Extensive collection of Martin ware; 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; the owl and plinth bought by Cyril Andrade for £25 for Dr Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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/77065 PEOPLE ------------------- Martin, Robert Wallace Martin, Walter Martin, Edwin Lambeth School of Art TECHNIQUES ---------- Stoneware, rolled and carved and with incised decoration, unglazed. hand building TECHNIQUES ---------- carving 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 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 36 dimension: Depth units: in value: 14 dimension: Height units: cm value: 30 dimension: Height units: in value: 11.75 dimension: Width units: cm value: 36 dimension: Width units: in value: 14 CITATIONS -------- Extensive collection of Martin ware; old English furniture, 24th October 1924 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery English Art Pottery 1865-1915 The Martin Brothers, Potters 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/GL_C_41A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_GL_C_41A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/GL_C_41A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_GL_C_41A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/GL_C_41A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_GL_C_41A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/GL_C_41A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_GL_C_41A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels