Estimate: $300 - $500
English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Auction: May 17, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Each with cream ground and decorated with naturalistic forms in dark rose overglaze, signed to underside "E. Balon/Blois" and painted to the well with a crest of a kicking leg, probably that of the Gilman family of Glynilson, Wales; offered together with a gouache and gilt drawing of a similar coat of arms, inscribed below, "He Beareth Argent a Mans leg/Sable couped Gules By the/Name of Gilman"; and with a copy of Keat's Poetical Works also stamped to front and back covers with the coat of arms. (5).
H: 2 1/2, Dia: 5 1/4 in. (candlestands)