Martin Brothers
A Substantial Floor Vase with Panels of Birds, 1876
of baluster form, the body incised with four panels, one depicting a pair of cranes fishing for frogs, one with swallows and their young being watched by a snake, one with two eagles in flight fighting over a fish, and the fourth with four birds in a coastal landscape, enclosed by incised and moulded foliate borders, in tones of blue and buff, with applied handles to the shoulder
105cm high, incised 'R. W. Martin London 8.1876' (restoration)