Live Auction 20038An Aesthetic Odyssey: The Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan Collection
A GROUP OF SEVEN MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE MUSICAL IMPS BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN
Lot 49

A GROUP OF SEVEN MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE MUSICAL IMPS BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN

EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE UNGLAZED FIGURES INCISED 'MARTIN BROS. LONDON'

Closed30 September 2021

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A GROUP OF SEVEN MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE MUSICAL IMPS BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN
EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE UNGLAZED FIGURES INCISED 'MARTIN BROS. LONDON'
Comprising: five unglazed and two glazed figures depicted with accentuated facial expressions, each playing a musical instrument, all with a turned ebonised wood base
Figure with castanets: 4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) high

Purchased from Richard Dennis, 1985.

Specialist note


For a discussion of the imp musicians modelled by Robert Wallace Martin see M. Haslam, The Martin Brothers Potters, London, 1978, pp. 133-135.