English Pottery Grotesque Spoon Warmers with Provenance
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Two English pottery grotesque spoon warmers, most likely by Maw & Co. Late 19th century, impressed retailer's mark 'T. Goode & Co.' who were a famous London emporium. With additional attached note 'Sacred dogs of Pekin, came from Lord Forrest's Home'. 14 cm high, 18 cm long. Provenance: purchased by the current vendor from the Lord Forrest collection (1st Premier of Western Australia) from a deaccession sale of property belonging to the National Trust.
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- Grotesque - Grotesque decoration is any fanciful ornament applied to furniture and decorative arts, and includes distorted faces, mythical animals such as satyrs and sphinxes and less frequently fantastical fruit and flower forms.
The Martin Brothers who set up their pottery at the end of the nineteenth century in Southall, Middlesex derived their fame from their hand made models of grotesque stoneware birds.
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