A Martin Brothers stoneware Monk bird jar and cover by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1905, modelled

A Martin Brothers stoneware Monk bird jar and cover by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1905, modelled standing on webbed claw feet, the head with balding pate, with broad, flat beak and forward expectant stare, glazed green, blue and brown on a mushroom ground, on ebonised wood base, incised 12.4.1905 R W Martin & Bros, London & Southall to head and base, small flat chip to side of beak, 21cm. high (2)

Provenance

Auty/Talbot family, thence by descent