IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74206 accession number: C.29-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Thrown and salt-glazed stoneware vase of elongated ovoid shape on a splayed foot, with gently flaring neck. Covered with pinkish yellow-ochre slip, which gives the appearance of pig-skin or pale leather. Incised decoration, filled with creamy-white slip and with additional grey and brown colours, depicting naturalistic flowers, insects, buds and leaves. The foot, external rim and interior of neck are coloured brown. The glaze is crackled. The underside is flat and glazed, with a raised rim and the makers' name, and date 5-1901, incised in script. object type: Salt-glazed stoneware vase with incised and painted decoration. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bequest of Thomas Knox-Shaw, former Master of Sidney Sussex College. Possibly acquired from the Charles and Lavinia Handley Read collection. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequest of Thomas Knox-Shaw, 1972 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74206 PEOPLE ------------------- Martin, Robert Wallace Martin, Walter Martin, Edwin Lambeth School of Art SUBJECTS ------------------- insects flowers insects flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- Thrown and salt-glazed stoneware vase of elongated ovoid shape on a splayed foot, with gently flaring neck. Covered with pinkish yellow-ochre slip. Incised decoration, filled with creamy-white slip and with additional grey and brown colours, throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery category: Martin ware DATING ------ creation date: 1901 - 1901 creation date earliest: 1901 creation date latest: 1901 culture: 20th Century, Early culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Martin Brothers DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 11.0 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 4.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 9.25 CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of Martinware formed by Mr F.J. Nettleford, together with a short history of the firm of R. W. Martin and Brothers of Southall The Martin Brothers, Potters English Art Pottery 1865-1915 Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_29_1972_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_29_1972_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_29_1972_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_29_1972_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_29_1972_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_29_1972_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_29_1972_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_29_1972_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels