Grotesque Stoneware Jug and Spaghetti Jars
Yvonne Rust, stoneware jug with a grotesque mask face, ash and tenmoku glaze, together with two stoneware spaghetti jars. Height 8.27 in.
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- Grotesque - Grotesque decoration is any fanciful ornament applied to furniture and decorative arts, and includes distorted faces, mythical animals such as satyrs and sphinxes and less frequently fantastical fruit and flower forms.
The Martin Brothers who set up their pottery at the end of the nineteenth century in Southall, Middlesex derived their fame from their hand made models of grotesque stoneware birds.
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