Moritz Michael Daffinger (Austrian, Vienna 1790–1849 Vienna)
Artist:
After a print by Charles de Mechel
Artist:
After a painting by Carle (Charles André) Vanloo (French, Nice 1705–1765 Paris)
Date:
1806–7
Culture:
Austrian, Vienna
Medium:
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:
Height (Cup .6): 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm); Diameter (Saucer .7): 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm)
Classification:
Ceramics-Porcelain
Credit Line:
Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
Accession Number:
50.211.6, .7
Not on view
Signature: Signed on quiver on cup: Daffinger
Marking: [1] Shield (factory mark, in underglaze blue, on bottom of each) [2] 806 (date mark, impressed, on bottom of cup) [3] 47 (workman's mark, impressed, on bottom of cup) [4] 4 (workman's mark, impressed, on bottom of cup) [5] 807 (date mark, impressed, on bottom of saucer) [6] 60 (workman's mark, impressed, on bottom of saucer)
Heinrich Rothberger , Vienna (by 1923–November 1938; seized by the Nazi mayor of Vienna; 1938/39, put in the inventory of the seized Viennese collections ["Zentraldepotkartei"] as Nr. 36 of the Heinrich Rothberger collection; October 12, 1940, bought by Staatliche Kunstgewerbemuseum Wien [today MAK] from Heinrich Rothberger via his lawyer Dr. Camillo Limpens and put in its inventory as H.I. 29.419, Ke 7754); Staatliche Kunstgewerbemuseum, Vienna (1940–October 29, 1947; restituted to Heinrich Rothberger, who probably sent it to Glüeckselig & Son, New York); [ Max Glüeckselig , New York, after 1947–October 1948; sold to Wilson ] ; R. Thornton Wilson (1948–50; to MMA)