Wally bird tobacco jar, by the Martin Brothers

An image of Wally Bird. Martin Brothers. Stoneware tobacco jar and cover, hand-modelled onto a press-moulded body into the shape of a grotesque bird, painted in cobalt blue and brown, and salt-glazed; the base fixed with nails onto a turned, circular wooden base-plate. Height (whole) 23.2 cm. Dated 1897.

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Wally Bird. Martin Brothers. Stoneware tobacco jar and cover, hand-modelled onto a press-moulded body into the shape of a grotesque bird, painted in cobalt blue and brown, and salt-glazed; the base fixed with nails onto a turned, circular wooden base-plate. Height (whole) 23.2 cm. Dated 1897.

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Accession Number: C.1226 & A-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 702 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 460.08kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 39/1
Captured: 2012:08:01 10:01:19

Key words

19th Century art pottery beak beaky nosed birds British English Fitz_AA glazed jar Martin Brothers pottery Robert Wallace Martin salt-glazed stoneware tobacco jar Victorian

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