Martinware bird sells for £40,000
“The best example I have seen in the last ten years,” said Woolley and Wallis’ decorative arts specialist Michael Jeffery, of this Martinware bird, which was consigned to the auctioneers’ May 26 sale from a vendor in the New Forest.
He felt the 17in (43cm) high bird, which was incised R Wallace Martin & Brothers, London and Sou…