Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware sculptural jar

Robert Wallace Martin for Martin Brothers, a stoneware sculptural jar, 1891, modelled as a sly characterful standing bird figure, with broad beak, grimacing, his squinting eyes with opposing glances, long scaly legs and tail feathers in graded shades of green, incised marks to head RW Martin + Bros, London + Southall, 6-1891, and to the base Martin Bros, London + Southall, on wooden base, 29.5cm high