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拍品 46
A MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE POCKET WATCH HOLDER BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN
1876
已結束2021年9月30日
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A MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE POCKET WATCH HOLDER BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN
1876
Modelled as a Gothic tower with a nesting owl and chicks, the upper part with architectural cinquefoil aperture evoking a ruined rose window, the reverse incised 'R.W. Martin 1876 / 5 London', the interior 'RWM' and the base 'No. 5.'; together with an associated Victorian silver cased key-wound ladies' pocket watch supported by a later velvet-covered softwood block
10 ¼ in. (26.1 cm.) high
1876
Modelled as a Gothic tower with a nesting owl and chicks, the upper part with architectural cinquefoil aperture evoking a ruined rose window, the reverse incised 'R.W. Martin 1876 / 5 London', the interior 'RWM' and the base 'No. 5.'; together with an associated Victorian silver cased key-wound ladies' pocket watch supported by a later velvet-covered softwood block
10 ¼ in. (26.1 cm.) high
A MARTIN BROTHERS STONEWARE POCKET WATCH HOLDER BY ROBERT WALLACE MARTIN
1876
Modelled as a Gothic tower with a nesting owl and chicks, the upper part with architectural cinquefoil aperture evoking a ruined rose window, the reverse incised 'R.W. Martin 1876 / 5 London', the interior 'RWM' and the base 'No. 5.'; together with an associated Victorian silver cased key-wound ladies' pocket watch supported by a later velvet-covered softwood block
10 ¼ in. (26.1 cm.) high
1876
Modelled as a Gothic tower with a nesting owl and chicks, the upper part with architectural cinquefoil aperture evoking a ruined rose window, the reverse incised 'R.W. Martin 1876 / 5 London', the interior 'RWM' and the base 'No. 5.'; together with an associated Victorian silver cased key-wound ladies' pocket watch supported by a later velvet-covered softwood block
10 ¼ in. (26.1 cm.) high
Purchased circa 1975.
M. Haslam, The Martin Brothers Potters, London, 1978, p. 16, fig. 10.
P. Rose, ‘The Grotesque Ceramic Sculpture of Robert Wallace Martin (1843-1923)’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 1979, vol. 3, p. 48, pl. 1.
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 12, 26
P. Rose, ‘The Grotesque Ceramic Sculpture of Robert Wallace Martin (1843-1923)’, The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society 1850 - the Present, 1979, vol. 3, p. 48, pl. 1.
B. Coleman, The Best of British Arts & Crafts, Atglen, PA, 2004, p. 12, 26
Richard Dennis, Martin Brothers Pottery Exhibition, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 1978, no. 58, as 'Gothic tower with watch holder'.