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Martin Brothers
Martin Brothers pottery is one of the most recognisable areas of the antiques market. The four Martin brothers, Walter, Robert, Edwin and Charles, began producing their wares in 1873 with a kiln at the family home in Fulham. They expanded in 1877, moving to a disused soap works on Havelock Road in Southall, where they continued until 1923.
Their glazed anthropomorphic bird jars are among their most sought-after works, but their vases, jugs and tiles which are often modelled with grotesque caricatures all remain highly collectable.
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Lampshade highlights the work of Quentin Bell, the last of Bloomsbury
22 January 2024A lampshade painted by Quentin Bell sold for a remarkable £4700 when Adam Partridge (20% buyer’s premium) dispersed the residual collection of Michael Evans in Macclesfield.
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Grotesque proves attractive when it comes to Martinware
08 January 2024Latest ceramics sales demonstrate how Martinware demand has moved on beyond Wally Birds
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Top stories this week including news of a stolen Martinware bird returned to museum after 15 years
24 September 2023The most viewed stories on this website over the last week included news of a Martinware bird being recovered after it was consigned to auction.
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Stolen Martinware bird returned to museum after 15 years
14 September 2023A third stolen Martinware bird has been recovered more than 15 years after it was stolen in west London.
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ATG letter: Why no Martin Brothers shows at museums?
12 June 2023I would like to thank George Kingham of Kinghams Auctioneers and Michael Jefferies at Woolley & Wallis for organising two exhibitions to commemorate 150 years since the Martin Brothers Pottery was founded and 100 years since Robert Wallace Martin died (see ATG Nos 2587 and 2594).
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Martinware birds flock to Salisbury
22 May 2023Salisbury auction house Woolley & Wallis is holding a Martin Brothers anniversary exhibition from June 13-22.
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Kinghams marks 150 years since the founding of Martin Brothers pottery with special exhibition
03 April 2023ATG made a visit to Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds for Kinghams Auctioneers’ Martinware show
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News in Brief including the launch of a major Martin Brothers show
13 March 2023A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including an exhibition in the Cotswolds to mark 150 years since the inauguration of the Martin Brothers pottery
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Lots on offer from ceramics champion Bob Ellison
13 February 2023An artist, collector and ceramics specialist, Bob Ellison donated over 600 pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in his lifetime.
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Flower power as Martinware, Amphora and Daum lead auction of single owner collection
09 January 2023Edward and Marilyn Flower embraced a huge variety of collecting enthusiasms.
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Martin Brothers' grotesque grinner is a winner at auction
05 December 2022An old family collection of Martin Brothers stonewares, assembled with purchases from the Southall potters in the late 19th and early 20th century, was offered in Cambridgeshire.
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Jardinieres take root in Maine auction
14 February 2022The varied mixed-discipline Winter Enchantment sale to be held in Maine by Thomaston Place auctions over three days from February 25-27 will include a sizeable glass and ceramics section.
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Martin Brothers tobacco jar and Peter Blake’s Pop Art collage are among four lots to watch
25 October 2021With estimates from £400-50,000 here are four previews of upcoming items.
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Kinghams showcases British art pottery in new venue
17 May 2021Second sale since auction house move and name change is a British art pottery success
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Second Martinware pottery jug from Ealing theft returned
11 February 2021A face jug from the Ealing Martinware thefts has been returned – the second piece from the Ealing Council’s collection to be recovered in recent months.
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Renewed plea to help find missing Martinware pieces from Ealing council
01 December 2020A group of Martinware pottery items stolen across two break-ins back in 2005 and 2007 from buildings owned by Ealing Council are still missing but there are hopes some can be recovered.
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Martinware theft: Ealing bird found
23 November 2020A missing Martinware bird has been recovered more than 15 years after it was stolen from Southall Library in Ealing, west London.
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Martin Brothers bird among highlights of two-day decorative sale
26 October 2020More than 700 lots of Decorative Arts and Design spanning the 19th through to the early years of this century were offered for sale by Woolley & Wallis (25/12% buyer’s premium) in Salisbury over two days.
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Wally birds and Moorcroft retain star appeal
26 October 2020Topping a 360-lot, £242,000 single-owner collection of Martinware and Moorcroft at Kingham & Orme (23% buyer’s premium) was a Robert Wallace Martin grotesque bird.
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£17,000 Martinware tortoise emerges from hibernation
24 August 2020This Martin Brothers stoneware model of a tortoise with a mirthful face was a very welcome discovery for auctioneer Rupert Toovey on a post-lockdown valuation in the Surrey Hills.
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