Bread and Butter Plate Queen Victoria

Bread & Butter Plate – Queen Victoria.

Diameter -155 mm (6.1 inch)

Queen Victoria is perhaps Herend’s most famous pattern, made up of almost a hundred kinds of stylized butterflies and sprigs of blossom, painted in cheerful and lively colours. A strong element of Herend’s Queen Victoria decor is the peony, which derived from China before becoming one of the favourite motifs of early European porcelain.

The combination of red, blue, purple, yellow and green butterflies, flowers, and sprigs makes a cavalcade of colour, surrounded by a gilt rim that stands for the green of a meadow.

In spite of the Chinese inspiration behind this imaginative combination assembled by the second founder of Herend, Mor Fischer, it gives a Hungarian impression. The Queen Victoria decor recalls Hungary’s woods and meadows and the colours and murmurings of country gardens.