Grotesque and smiling armadillo

April 1894
Salt-glazed stoneware.
11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm) long
Underside incised with 4-1894/Martin Bros./London + Southall.

Provenance
Sotheby & Co., London, "Nineteenth Century English Pottery and Porcelain," October 30,
1969, lot 82
R. Bescoby, Esq., UK
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, New York
Private collection, UK
Sylvia Powell, London, 1996
Private collection, UK

Literature
Cosmo Monkhouse, "Some Original Ceramists," The Magazine of Art, Vol. V., London, 1882,
p. 444 for a drawing of a similar example
J.F. Blacker, Nineteenth-Century English Ceramic Art, London, 1911, p. 382 for a drawing of
a similar example