About this lot

Description

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware oil lamp base, circa 1874,

the brown glazed reservoir incised with butterflies and raised upon four blue glazed serpentine supports, incised marks and inscribed 'No 1' to underside
33cm high

Provenance:
Acquired by the present owner from a private American collection



The reservoir with old staple repairs, some crude restoration to one upright, a slightly less crude repair to another, further staple repair to base of one upright. A firing crack around the underside of the foot, further firing cracks to body.

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