Cake Plate Rothschild Bird

Cake Plate with handle – Rothschild Bird.

Width - 290 mm (11.42 inch), Length - 320 mm (12.6 inch)

The gilt-edged Herend Rothschild porcelain displays twelve different kinds of birds or bird couples with colourful feathers, sitting on tree branches.

Dainty pastel-coloured butterflies and bugs are scattered around the bird compositions at Herend Rothschild decor. The first creator of this composition dreamt up birds in couples or alone, sitting closer or farther away from each other, and a fine, glittering golden chain winding around the tree branches.

Twelve different kinds of birds on Herend Rothschild. As if these were snapshots from nature. One of them may be a robin. No, not really. Maybe a goldcrest. And is the other a titmouse? Or a goldfinch? And the third and fourth… A finch or a lark and a warbler or a longtailed tit… You may not be able to identify them, even with an ornithological dictionary in hand. But it’s probably not the point. The subtle, intricate detail is what really represents value here.

It really does not matter if the birds depicted on the porcelain can be found in nature or not. They are the birds of the Herend Rothschild pattern. Because the Herend Porcelain Manufactory found them when Romanticism was popular all over Europe.