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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Martin Ware

Chess Piece
1902 (dated)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Chess piece, white pawn. Stoneware. Moulded man's head and shoulders with incised chain-mail vest with black pigment, on a pedestal base. White glaze.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleMartin Ware (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Salt-glazed stoneware
Brief description
White pawn, 'Martin Ware' chess piece, modelled by R. Wallace Martin and made by R.W. Martin & Brothers, London
Physical description
Chess piece, white pawn. Stoneware. Moulded man's head and shoulders with incised chain-mail vest with black pigment, on a pedestal base. White glaze.
Gallery label
Chess Set 'Martin Ware' Modelled by R. Wallace Martin, made by R.W. Martin & Brothers, London, England, C.211 P-1921 Mrs Clara Boulnois Bequest(23/05/2008)
Credit line
Bequeathed by Mrs Clara Boulnois
Object history
Modelled at the suggestion of Mr J.J. Wade , second division clerk at the V&A, who supplied chessmen for the artist's reference. The set was sold to Mrs Boulnois for £20. (Apocryphal).
Bibliographic reference
Haslam, Malcolm. The Martin Brothers, Potters. Richard Dennis : London. 133 p., ill. fig. XXIV.
Collection
Accession number
C.211P-1921

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Record createdMarch 31, 2008
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