Lot 50 : Estimate £4,000-£6,000

Robert Wallace Martin - Martin Brothers - An early 20th Century Eskimo jug modelled as an male figure wrapped in a fur coat, the whole in a brown glaze with green spotting, incised R.W Martin & Bros, London & Southall 14.9.1903, height 36cm Perhaps rather than an eskimo, the figure actually commemorates many of the polar expeditions of the time such as Captain Scott's British National Antarctic Expedition or Captain Roald Amundsen's Polar exhibition in the Gjoa from Oslo on 17th June 1903.

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