Herend Experts Blog
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Apponyi – Chinese Bouquet Colours
One of the most known Herend porcelain design is the Apponyi design. It is originated from the Indian Basket design. A simplified version, representing traditional European minimalism. There are many colour variations, which the customer must know, before deciding. Let’s see these options!
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Dinner plates and Serving plates of Herend
The place setting composition guide continues with the main dish, and its accessories, the dinner plate and serving plate. Lets’s see the different Herend plate variations available.
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Further Herend Plates for the place setting – dinner sets
There are smaller plate options for the Herend place settings. These are the followings:
- Crescent plates
- Dessert plates
- Bread and butter plates
- Salad plates
- Dessert plates
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Herend Soup Cups and Soup Plates
In the following article we go through the most important options related to the Herend soup plates and soup cups available for the customer.
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Herend Porcelain Dinner Set Composition Guide – Serving Dishes
The following is a brief summary, what you have to know in order to order a Herend porcelain dinner set.
The first famous dinner set was ordered by Queen Victoria in 1851 at the World Fair. Intrestingly she did not lay the table with Herend plates for diplomats, but only for family.
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Rare and Limited Herend Patterns
At Herend every piece of porcelain is unique. Yet there are some designs that every Herend enthusiast knows very well because of their famous owners.
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Herend porcelain Exhibition in Vienna – Holet Marriott
In 2018 November, we had the honour to organise a Herend Exhibition in Vienna. Many of our customers and visitors did not have a chance to visit this event. We decided to share this experience with you now, through this article.
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Herend Forms – “Rocaille” the Shell relief
“The Rocaille shape cleverly combines the popular element of Rococo with the options provided by the porcelain material. The stylized shell-imitating motif harmoniously fits with many patterns enhancing their aesthetic beauty.
The gracefully arched reliefs combined with the classic wicker motif make up a collection that enjoys great popularity all over the wider form assortment beyond the beauty of patterns choose Rocaille.” -
The Multifunctional Herend Cup
We would like to draw your attention to a less known Herend product, the Multifunctional or Morning Mug.
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The Knob Quest of Herend
The most type of knobs are available for the original Herend form Osier. This form – also called basket relief form – was invented by Herend. You have a wide range of knob types but our customers rarely knows which are these. Let’s see the varieties of knobs of Herend in details…
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Herend Typographical Errors – Blog Post
“How to write it correctly?”
Recently, we have received some messages asking for the following items:
Herrend, Herand, Heren, Heremd, Hevend, and even Heeend, Heron and so on.
Well, the correct form is Herend. But why? Read more!
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Herend Marks
Herend has many types of products and they need to have a logical structure to be able to identify every product. There are more than 16 000 pc Herend white porcelain items in different sizes and forms. We need to be able to identify every item. Also, there are are more than 400 design variations. Herend has a marking system to keep track of the different items.
On the bottom of every Herend porcelain product, you can see a Herend trademark. This is the Unique ID of the product. It doesn’t matter if you have an old or a new product because with this number you can identify, reference, or re-order the product.
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Brief Chronology of Herend
1826
Vince Stingl establishes a hard pottery workshop in Herend.
1839
Mór Fischer buys the Manufactory from Vince Stingl and his partner, regular porcelain manufacture begins. “Herend Begins” Read more!
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Herend Tea and Coffee Set Crash Course
When someone sends us a message “How much is a Coffee Set for 6 persons?” we already know they aren’t asking the right question. Herend is a more than 190 years old luxury brand, which had so many innovative ideas in fine china, that cannot be summarised as “a Tea Set for 6 persons”. You need to understand that every single item has lots of variants and you should choose the one you really love. In this article, I will give you some guidelines on how we do such a process. (TLDR)
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History of Herend Rothschild Bird Decor
In the 1850—60s it was a common practice to use several hundred or thousand-year-old Far Eastern porcelain decors as a base when creating new European patterns. This applies to the history of the Rothschild Bird decor as well…
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