Owl with removable head
Modelled by Robert Wallace
Martin (1843 - 1923)
Martin Brothers, Southall
Middlesex, September, 1903
Stoneware decorated with coloured
slips, and salt-glazed
Incised inscriptions: round
the neck: 'R.W. Martin
& Brothers. London & Southall, England',
and 'R.W.M.Sc; on the
base: '9 1903/R.W. Martin & Bros/ London & Southall
This owl probably resembled
'a monster owl' said
to have been made by
Wallace Martin as
a punchbowl for the
Bohemian Club
of San Francisco in 1893
but destroyed in the earthquake of 1906.
Made in 1903, it remained in Wallace Martin's studio
until his death in 1923.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest C.41-1928
