Martin
Brothers Pottery
 Founded
by the eldest of a group of brothers, Robert Wallace Martin (1843-1923)
Martin Brothers Pottery was well known for its salt-glazed stoneware
with Gothic Revival influences, known as ‘Martinware’.
Robert had trained in sculpture at Lambeth School of Art and later
at the Royal Academy of Art and set up the first workshop making
terracotta sculpture in the 1860s. By 1973, he had gone into business
with his brothers Charles, Walter and Edwin in Fulham. In 1977 they
moved to Southall and began production of their eccentric, grotesquely
modeled ‘Wally Birds’, wheel-thrown and sculpted face
jugs, vases and other items reminiscent of art and architecture
of the Middle Age and it is for these items that the company became
well known.
The
brothers worked in close collaboration and produced items of a ‘truly
medieval virility never repeating a pattern including grinning human
faces, tobacco
jars fashioned like owls, grotesque chessmen. Beginning in the 1890s
items began appearing with painted flowers and birds, decoration
that showed the influence of Art Nouveau.
The Martin Brothers factory finished production in 1914.
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