Edwin and Walter Martin for Martin Brothers, an Aquatic stoneware vase and cover, 1896, shouldered ovoid form, sgraffito decorated in the round with sea creatures including grotesque and characterful fish, lobster and eels in a watery ground, the lid with a modelled with a central limpet, incised marks 10-1896 Martin Bros London + Southall, original paper label R W Martin & Bros Art Potters, 16 Brownlow St, High Holborn, London, 20cm high

Provenance: Richard Dennis Martin Brothers Pottery Exhibition 1978, number 302; Gorgeously Grotesque, Exhibition Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, 2003, number 95; Fantasies in Clay, Martin Brothers Art Pottery, Blackwell, 2008; illustrated in Haslam, M. 1978, Martin Brothers, p.125 fig.193; exhibited in Fantasy and the Grotesque: the Pottery of Robert Wallace Martin and the Martin Brothers, Kinghams Auctioneers 27th April - 1st March 2023, number 35