Herend Rothschild Bird Salad Dish

Large square salad serving bowl or dish from Herend, made in Hungary. The pattern is Rothschild Bird, featuring birds, flowers and insects with a basket weave band and scalloped rim. It is 10" across by 3 3/4" high and in excellent preowned condition, no chips or cracks.

Many connoisseurs consider this pattern, first created in 1860 for the Rothschild family of Europe, to be the epitome of hand painting on porcelain. Twelve different motifs portray a 19th century tale about Baroness Rothschild, who lost her pearl necklace in the garden of her Vienna residence. Several days later it was found by her gardener, who saw birds playing with it in a tree.