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Date: 1887
Dimensions: 21.5 x 22.8
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C35
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Robert Wallace Martin was one of four brothers who ran the Martin Brothers pottery in Fulham (1873-7) and Southall (1877-1915). He was part of a movement of Arts and Crafts potters who, inspired by the simplicity and rustic appearance of medieval European and Japanese stoneware (a hard, dense kind of pottery), created salt-glazed stoneware, a strong, non-porous pottery with a distinctive ‘orange-peel’ texture. Martin’s output is characterised by groteque animals, vessels with faces, and rustic sculptural forms.

Details

Date: 1886
Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.4
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C34
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1887
Dimensions: 18.5 x 15.2
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C33
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1893
Dimensions: 33 x 12.7
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C32
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1887
Dimensions: 22.8 x 19
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C31
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1886
Dimensions: 38.1 x 21.5
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C29a
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1886
Dimensions: 36.5 x 12.7
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C28a
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: 1886
Dimensions: 38.1 x 21.5
Object Type: ceramic
Material: stoneware
Catalogue number: C29
Designer and maker: R W Martin, London and Southall
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Details

Date: c. 1886
Dimensions: 201 x 259 x 86.4
Object Type: furniture
Material: satinwood, mahogany, brass and oil
Technique: repousse
Catalogue number: G14.1
Designer: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Artist: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Retailer: Century Guild
Manufacturer: Goodall & Co, King Street, Manchester
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

This large satinwood and carved mahogony cabinet features painted design and lettering by Herbert Horne. The cabinet is one of the Century Guild’s most ambitious pieces of furniture and was part of its display at the Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition in 1887. It was reviewed in ‘The Journal of Decorative Art (November, 1887) where ‘the simplicity and largeness of design’ was praised.
The cabinet is similar in style to a large satinwood settle with drapery hangings and upholstered seat cushion in ‘The Angel with the Trumpet’ cretonne, formerly at Pownall Hall, near Wilmslow, Cheshire, home of Henry Boddington who commissioned furniture etc. for the house from The Century Guild in the 1880s; this settle is now in the V&A Museum. It is possible that this cabinet was intended for Pownall Hall, but for for some reason not used there and remained in Mackmurdo’s possession.

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