Aesthetic and Grotesque: a Private Collection of Martin Brothers, Arts and Crafts and Japonesque

A Secessionist bentwood umbrella or stick stand, circa 1900, rod and ball construction united by gilt brass fittings and screws, brass tray to the...

Liberty and Co., an Aesthetic Movement walnut occasional table, circa 1880, in the Moorish style, with opposing sides of ebonised Persian and hors...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a sculptural stoneware match striker wall pocket, 1876, shield form, modelled in relief with an owl hol...

Martin Brothers, a stoneware tile, circa 1890, sgraffito decorated with foliate scroll and floral motif, relief moulded marks Martin Brothers Lond...

Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a small stoneware vase, 1898, bulbous bottle form painted with mossy green glaze, incised marks 2-98 Martin Bro...

A Victorian engraved glass witches or sorcerers mirror, circular form with reverse cut convex roundels within hop and grape motifs, wooden fame, 3...

An Anglo Japonesque occasional table, the ogee bordered top carved in low relief with a Japanese still life of flowers on a rocky outcrop, within ...

Edwin Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware wildflower chamberstick, 1891, splayed trumpet form with everted rim and loop handle, slip decorated...

Edwin Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware mug, inscribed Alice, 1893, conical form, sgraffito decorated with birds amongst prunus and a banner...

Edwin Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware wildflower vase, circa 1900, flattened elongated bottle form, sgraffito decorated with yarrow, bullr...

Edwin Martin for Martin Brothers, a small stoneware wildflower vase, 1901, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated in the round with butterflie...

The Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, 1902, ovoid form with milled fluted neck, sgraffito decorated with foliate scrolls of poppy...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware foliate and insect vase, 1897, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated with poppies and ...

A pair of Chinese silk embroidered panels, depicting fish amongst peony and lotus flowers, 43cm x 22cm (2)

Newlyn, an Arts and Crafts Cornish copper jug, tapered square section, planished and repousse decorated with fish and cormorants, embossed with bu...

John Pearson, an Arts and Crafts copper charger, 1895, wide brimmed circular form, repousse embossed with a central galleon with raised sails and ...

Archibald Knox for Liberty and Co., an Arts and Crafts copper mirror, the planished frame riveted, with an arched pediment repousse embossed with ...

William de Morgan for Sands End Pottery, an Arts and Crafts galleon tile, circa 1890, monochrome painted in green with a ship in full sail on open...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, an Aquatic stoneware dish, 1893, circular form with central concave dimple, sgraffito decorated with ch...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a small Aquatic stoneware vase, 1901, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated with jellyfish in a wa...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, an Aquatic stoneware vase and cover, 1896, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated in the round wi...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a large pair of Aquatic stoneware vases, 1897, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated with characte...

The Martin Brothers, a relief moulded stoneware Aquatic vase, 1890, square section ovoid shouldered form, each side with characterful and grotesqu...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, an Aquatic stoneware vase, 1901 four handled square sectio inverse baluster form, relief modelled and s...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, an Aquatic stoneware vase, 1889, deep shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated with characterful and ...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a relief moulded Aquatic stoneware vase, 1891, shouldered ovoid form, modelled with grotesque and chara...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a large Aquatic stoneware vase, 1898, shouldered form, sgraffito decorated in the round with sea crea...

A pair of Japanese Imari Arita porcelain dishes, ogee rimmed, painted with underglaze blue dragons, double geometric patterned pearls and clouds h...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware panel of three dragon tiles, circa 1890, each with zoomorphic foliate scrolls of beasts, po...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware Renaissance Dragon dish, 1889, Armada form, sgraffito decorated with snarling dragons ent...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware lizard vase, 1898, ovoid form with everted rim, sgraffito decorated with dragon like winged...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware ewer or jug, 1892, square section shouldered form with top handle, sgraffito decorated with...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a large stoneware Dragon vase, 1903, shouldered form, sgraffito decorated in the round with fierce re...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a grotesque stoneware dragon jug, 1901, modelled in relief as a squatting grotesque gargoyle type creat...

A Japanese leather and bamboo sagemono (smoking set), Edo or Meiji, including a kiseruzutsu containing a brass and bamboo kiseru (pipe), on a stra...

A Japanese carved antler kiseruzutsu (pipe holder), Edo or Meiji, modelled as Ashinaga, a hysterical man with elongated legs and folded arms, a ca...

A Japanese carved antler and bamboo sagemono (smoking se)t, Edo or Meiji, including a kiseruzutsu decorated in relief with a samurai standing on l...

A Japanese carved antler and leather sagemono (smoking set), Edo or Meiji, including a kiseruzutsu decorated in relief with a samurai in action wi...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a sculptural stoneware figure of a musical imp, 1896, modelled as a grotesque figure playing the drums,...

R W Martin for Martin Brothers, a sculptural stoneware figure of a musical imp, circa 1900, modelled as a grotesque chorister singing, holding a b...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a sculptural stoneware musical imp, circa 1900, a grotesque stoneware figure modelled as a cellist, bis...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a sculptural stoneware figure of a musical imp, circa 1900, modelled as a grotesque figure playing the ...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware pawn chess piece, 1901, modelled as the bust of a startled soldier with helmet, on square p...

Robert Wallace Matin for Matin Brothers, a stoneware characterful face jug, 1901, modelled in relief as a whistling man with pursed lips and side ...

John Pearson, an Arts and Crafts copper coal box, 1901, cuboid form, the steel frame set with repousse panels of characterful creatures in the Cel...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a large stoneware Wally Bird jardiniere, 1893, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated in the round ...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware Wally Bird jug, circa 1890s, square section shouldered form, sgraffito decorated with chara...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a large stoneware Wally Bird jug, 1894, conical form, sgraffito decorated in the round with characterfu...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a characterful stoneware bird head sculpture, 1889, modelled as a hook beaked monk, deep set eyes and s...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a characterful sculptural stoneware jar and cover, 1902, modelled as a slender bird, with webbed feet a...

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a characterful sculptural bird jar and cover, 1898, modelled as a portly figure with swept back eyebrow...

Edwin and Walter Martin, a miniature stoneware vase, 1902, of twin handles NeoClasical form, sweeping baluster form with bulbous neck, incised wit...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, 1902, lobed ovoid form, combed swag panels between green glazed ver...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, 1906, twin handled ovoid form, veined and spotted in shades of brow...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, 1906, squat shouldered form with spiny vertical ribs between incise...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a small stoneware gourd vase, circa 1900, lobed spherical form, incised with wrythen denticulated fea...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, circa 1910, wrythen bulbous form, each face combed with wavy tendri...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a miniature stoneware gourd vase, 1899, shouldered ovoid bottle form, incised bands of horizontal com...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, a small stoneware gourd bowl or dish, 1906, squat urchin form with inverted rim, textured with vertic...

Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, an aquatic type gourd vase, circa 1900, cylindrical form modelled in relief with feathered twisted an...