Countess Uhlfeld, in off-the-shoulder white dress, pink rose at corsage, a pink rose in her dressed dark hair; sky and cloud background

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Countess Uhlfeld, in off-the-shoulder white dress, pink rose at corsage, a pink rose in her dressed dark hair; sky and cloud background
signed 'Daffinger' (lower right)
on a Vienna blue-ground cabinet cup and saucer, circa 1830, blue shield mark to both, the cup with script FM mark in black, the cup of flared form with a gilt loop handle, the portrait painted in a cartouche with oval gilt band, against a blue ground below a border of gilt panels, scrolls and foliage, the saucer with a central floral medaillion against a blue ground within a similar border, gilt band rims
the miniature oval, 2½ in. (63 mm.); the cup, 3½ in. (91 mm.) diam.; the saucer 5 7/8 in. (143 mm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

Daffinger's signed watercolour on ivory miniature of the Countess was sold Sotheby's, London, Olympia, 24 July 2002, lot 34.
Other porcelain decorated by Daffinger is illustrated in E. Pirchan, Moritz Michael Daffinger. Miniaturmaler des Vormärz, Vienna/Leipzig, 1943, fig. 18-22.

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