Jar with four birds
Medium
Stoneware
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed, irregular diameter): 8 5/16 × 6 × 6 1/8 in. (21.1 × 15.2 × 15.6 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Southall, London
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013
Accession Number
2013.239.7
Tags
About the Artist
R. W. Martin and Brothers · 1873–1915
R. W. Martin and Brothers, often known simply as the Martin Brothers pottery, was a pioneering British studio founded in 1873 by sculptor Robert Wallace Martin (1843–1923) in Fulham, London, alongside his brothers Charles Douglas Martin (1846–1910), Walter Fraser Martin (1857–1912), and Edwin Bruce Martin (1860–1915). The firm relocated to a former soap factory on Havelock Road in Southall, Middle...