A Martin Brothers stoneware face jug by Robert Wallace Martin

A Martin Brothers stoneware face jug by Robert Wallace Martin, dated 1905, modelled to one side with a smiling face, the reverse and more smug grin, glazed brown with white and black highlights, incised 1-1905 R W Martin & Bros, London & Southall, paper label numbered 78, 17cm. high

Provenance

Martin Brothers Pottery Exhibition, Richard Dennis, 1978 catalogue number 459.

Christie's South Kensington, circa 1980.

Exhibited

Martin Brothers Pottery Exhibition, Richard Dennis, 1978 catalogue number 459.

Martin Brothers, Tokyo exhibition, 1979.

Gorgeously Grotesque, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, 2003, catalogue number 103.

Fantasies in Clay, Blackwell House, 2008.