EMPIRE PERIOD PARIS PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER FROM THE DIHL AND GUERHARD MANUFACTORY Polychrome decoration of a portrait of Joséphine after a miniature by Ferdinand Paul Louis Quaglia (1780-1853) in an oval medallion on a gold background decorated with palmettes and rosettes burnished to effect, the handle ending in a bust of a winged Victory, the pedestal bearing the gold inscription: Joséphine, Impératrice. Marked : Dihl in gold on the cup and M. de Dihl et Guérhard à Paris in the vignette in red under the saucer; minor restoration to the foot of the cup. H. 11 cm D. 17 cm Cup and saucer from the Empire period, Manufacture of Dihl and Guérhard The Musée National des Châteaux de Malmaison et de Bois-Préau holds an identical cup and saucer under the inventory number "M.M.2000.7.1" as well as a miniature of Empress Josephine after Ferdinand Paul Louis Quaglia (1780-1853), under the inventory number "M.M.70.12.1". See Alain Pougetoux, "Paul-Ferdinand-Louis Quagila, portrait de l'impératrice Joséphine" (in the Malmaison collections), Société des amis de Malmaison Bulletin. À , no. 39, 2005, p. 49.