Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware Renaissance Dragon dish, 1889, Armada form, sgraffito decorated with snarling dragons entwined within a foliate scroll ground of poppies and other flowers, around a central domed bosse, incised marks 10-1889 R W Martin & Brothers London + Southall, 34cm diameter
Provenance: Bonhams London, 24th April 2012, lot 61
Note: see Haslam, M. 1978, Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, p.70, fig.84, for an illustration of this dish
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Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware Renaissance Dragon dish, 1889, Armada form, sgraffito decorated with snarling dragons entwined within a foliate scroll ground of poppies and other flowers, around a central domed bosse, incised marks 10-1889 R W Martin & Brothers London + Southall, 34cm diameter
Provenance: Bonhams London, 24th April 2012, lot 61
Note: see Haslam, M. 1978, Martin Brothers Potters, Richard Dennis, p.70, fig.84, for an illustration of this dish
Auction: Aesthetic and the Grotesque: a Private Collection of Martin Brothers, Arts and Crafts and Japonesque, 6th Feb, 2025
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