page_title: Wally Bird
hierarchical_section_title: Wally Bird
caption_attribution_description: British, Southall, London; Figure; Ceramics-Pottery
context_page_description: A Wally Bird is a tobacco jar or vase in the style of a grotesque owl or bird, first termed for the sculptural productions in this form by Robert Wallace Martin. These were typical examples of Martinware — salt-glazed stoneware which was produced by the Martin Brothers in their pottery; first in Fulham and then in Southall.
  The Wally Birds were popular but did not make the Martins wealthy; the pottery closed in 1914.
  Examples of these birds now sell at auction for large sums of money.
context_section_description: A Wally Bird is a tobacco jar or vase in the style of a grotesque owl or bird, first termed for the sculptural productions in this form by Robert Wallace Martin. These were typical examples of Martinware — salt-glazed stoneware which was produced by the Martin Brothers in their pottery; first in Fulham and then in Southall.  
  The Wally Birds were popular but did not make the Martins wealthy; the pottery closed in 1914. 
  Examples of these birds now sell at auction for large sums of money.
caption: Martin Brothers Wally Bird, 1896.
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