Martin Ware
Vase
1901 (dated)
1901 (dated)
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If Martin-ware [… has] not the transparency of porcelain nor the elaborately and costly ornamentation of Sèvres [it is] pure and honest art work.
This is how the art critic Cosmo Monkhouse described the output of the Martin Brothers' studio in The Magazine of Art in 1882. Eccentric founder Robert Wallace Martin and his siblings Charles, Walter and Edwin epitomized the energy and experimentation of the nineteenth-century art pottery movement. They regarded pottery as a means of artistic expression, rather than a product of industrial manufacture, and were particularly inspired by the rustic flora and fauna forms of the sixteenth-century potter Bernard Palissy as well as Japanese arts.
This vase is typical of the Martin Brothers' later work and shows the influence of the emerging Art Nouveau style, inspired by natural forms such as seeds and plants.
This is how the art critic Cosmo Monkhouse described the output of the Martin Brothers' studio in The Magazine of Art in 1882. Eccentric founder Robert Wallace Martin and his siblings Charles, Walter and Edwin epitomized the energy and experimentation of the nineteenth-century art pottery movement. They regarded pottery as a means of artistic expression, rather than a product of industrial manufacture, and were particularly inspired by the rustic flora and fauna forms of the sixteenth-century potter Bernard Palissy as well as Japanese arts.
This vase is typical of the Martin Brothers' later work and shows the influence of the emerging Art Nouveau style, inspired by natural forms such as seeds and plants.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Martin Ware (manufacturer's title) |
| Materials and techniques | Salt-glazed stoneware with painted decoration |
| Brief description | Squat 'Martin Ware' vase, salt-glazed stoneware with blue and brown spotted glaze, made by Martin Bros., Southall, dated 1901 |
| Physical description | Small vase, flattened and bulbous. Stoneware. Blue 'net' over brown glaze forming irregular spot pattern. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | '12-1901 / Martin Bros / London & Southall' (Maker's mark incised on base) |
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| Credit line | The 2nd Lieutenant Francis Bedford Marsh 1914-1918 War Memorial Gift |
| Summary | If Martin-ware [… has] not the transparency of porcelain nor the elaborately and costly ornamentation of Sèvres [it is] pure and honest art work. This is how the art critic Cosmo Monkhouse described the output of the Martin Brothers' studio in The Magazine of Art in 1882. Eccentric founder Robert Wallace Martin and his siblings Charles, Walter and Edwin epitomized the energy and experimentation of the nineteenth-century art pottery movement. They regarded pottery as a means of artistic expression, rather than a product of industrial manufacture, and were particularly inspired by the rustic flora and fauna forms of the sixteenth-century potter Bernard Palissy as well as Japanese arts. This vase is typical of the Martin Brothers' later work and shows the influence of the emerging Art Nouveau style, inspired by natural forms such as seeds and plants. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.490-1919 |
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| Record created | March 31, 2008 |
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