Herend Factory

The Herend Porcelain Manufactory is one of the most important and recognised porcelain manufacturers in the world.
It grew out of the small workshop established in 1826 by Vince Stingl in the village of the same name in western Hungary. Herend, located in the province of Vesprem near Lake Balaton, almost uninhabited at the time, is now a flourishing town that owes everything to the ‘white gold’ of porcelain. In the porcelain art of the 19th century, Herend’s chinoiserie is unique for the versatility and variety with which it was able to reproduce and reproduce oriental porcelain.
Herend soon distinguished itself from other manufactures in the area by producing 17th- and 18th-century Chinese and Japanese ceramics and by producing porcelain in the classical European style of Meissen, Vienna, Sèvres and Capodimonte. From the mid-19th century, the manufactory specialised in historicism, reinterpreting and reproducing important elements of craft history. Herend became world famous on the occasion of the World Exhibition in London in 1851, when England’s Queen Victoria ordered a service decorated with butterfly and flower motifs in typical Chinese style, which was later named after her and is still in production today.