Grotesque Three-Legged Bird Inkwell with Blue Porcelain Insert
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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.
This item has been included into following indexes:
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ink wells / ink stands, material
- pewter 18
- porcelain, pottery 65
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