Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
Lot 472

MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 7,500

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MORITZ MICHAEL DAFFINGER (AUSTRIAN, 1790-1849)
A lady called Countess Henrietta Hunyady née Princess of Liechtenstein (1806-1886) in white off-the-shoulder dress with brown buckled belt, her brown hair in a bun and ringlets; sky and foliate background
On ivory
Oval, 75 mm. high, gilt-metal mount set in a rectangular velvet easel-stand mount, in a dark brown leather folding case stamped 'T. 1872 / [coroneted] WR'

Sotheby's, London, 6 March 1997, lot 27.
The Albion Collection; Bonhams, London, 22 April 2004, lot 151.
Christie's, London, 26-27 November 2013, lot 182.

Specialist note

Another portrait of Countess Henrietta Hunyady by Daffinger is illustrated in L. Grünstein, Moritz Michael Daffinger und sein Kreis, Leipzig, 1923, pl. XI, and another example was sold Sotheby's, Geneva, 11 May 1989, lot 33.