R. W. Martin & Brothers - Martinware New York Tuesday, December 15, 2015 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sotheby & Co., London, "Nineteenth Century English Pottery and Porcelain," October 30, 1969, lot 82
    R. Bescoby, Esq., UK
    Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York
    Private collection, UK
    Sylvia Powell, London, 1996
    Private collection, UK

  • Literature

    Cosmo Monkhouse, "Some Original Ceramists," The Magazine of Art, Vol. V., London, 1882, p. 444 for a drawing of a similar example
    J.F. Blacker, Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art, London, 1911, p. 382 for a drawing of a similar example

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Grotesque and smiling armadillo

April 1894
Salt-glazed stoneware.
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm) long
Underside incised with 4-1894/Martin Bros./London + Southall.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Sold for $143,000

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Martinware

New York Auction 15 December 2015 11am