A Married Fifty-Piece Herend Rothschild Bird Pattern Partial Gilt Porcelain Partial Tea and Coffee Service for Seven, 19th century and later Marks to tallest: (factory mark in blue overglaze), Herend 6-1/8 x 9 x 6-1/4 inches (15.6 x 22.9 x 15.9 cm) (tallest, teapot) The service comprising: 1 teapot; 1 small sugar bowl; 1 covered sugar bowl; 7 teacups; 8 coffee cups; 16 saucers; 12 bread & butter plates; 2 medium round plates; 1 two-handled chop plate; 1 covered box. 50 Total Property from the Kathleen Durdin Collection HID12401132022 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice

Overall, the lot presents well to the naked eye. Teapot with restoration to spout and overpaint to its cover's finial. A Y-shaped hairline to lower body. Teapot with a chip to its foot; not visible when in place. Saucers with a chip to the rim of one, and a hairline to another example. Covered sugar bowl with four chips to rim, and hairlines to its interior, with its enamel to exterior still intact. One teacup with a firing crack to its underside. Coffee cups with a chip to one foot; two cups with firing cracks to their handle, most visible to joint between handle and cup. One chip to the rim of one coffee cup. Bread & butter plates with a chip to foot of one; not visible when in place. Two hairlines to the rim of one bread & butter; a spider crazing on the underside of one and a chip to its reverse. Minimal rubbing to gilt details and wear to enamel as expected with age, use, and light handling.