Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a characterful sculptural stoneware jar and cover, 1881, modelled as a dozy bird, with webbed feet and curled talons, the fixed head with long broad beak, tilted, with half closed, sleepy eyes, on turned wooden base, incised marks to head RW Martin London & Southall 3.9.81-, 30cm high Note: an example of an early bird where the head is turned and sculpted on its axis, creating a flattened back