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Some of the most elegant and desired Christmas gifts under the tree this year were signed by leading Herend Artist Marianna Steigervald, during her November visit\u00a0 at Kelly\u2019s House and Home, Mall at Marathon, Nassau.<\/p>\n
Despite the unusually stormy weather, the artist cheerfully signed Herend pieces from current stock and from private collections as well–to add even more value.\u00a0 Herend is collected by generations of Bahamians. Customers such as Sonia Cox Hamilton went home singing in the rain, with really special Christmas presents ready for wrapping.<\/p>\n
As Kelly’s \u00a0stocks \u00a0nearly a dozen of the most popular Herend \u00a0Porcelain patterns including: \u00a0“Queen Victoria,” \u00a0“Rothschild Birds,” “Golden \u00a0 Edge” and “Chinese Bouquet” in green, rust and blue, you may find your own pattern\u00a0 or\u00a0 other favourite people\u2019s\u00a0 wedding selections, still in stock. Other patterns \u00a0may be ordered at Kelly’s with delivery taking about four months.<\/p>\n
A virtual menagerie of Herend\u2019s famously fabulous animals also make popular gifts. Every scale or whisker is hand painted. Herend collector Leroy Major won a gorgeous Herend Oyster\u00a0by purchasing Herend pieces during the signing at Kelly\u2019s.<\/p>\n
“You can still order a replacement for your great-grandmother’s Herend wedding china or tea pot,” says Mrs. Nancy B. Kelly, \u00a0President of \u00a0the nation’s largest department store, Kelly’s \u00a0House and Home. As a result of being entirely hand made, none of the \u00a0Herend patterns\u00a0is ever obsolete or out of production.<\/p>\n
Herend produces table services for kings and queens and has often \u00a0 named patterns after the famous person for whom it was designed, such \u00a0 as “Queen Victoria”. The monarch ordered a service decorated with \u00a0 flowers and butterflies at the Great Exhibition in London’s Crystal \u00a0 Palace in 1851.Showing a Chinese influence, it is one of Herend’s most \u00a0 popular designs to this day.<\/p>\n
The Herend Collection is so vast it would fill the whole of the \u00a0 huge Kelly’s store with 15,000 shapes, \u00a03,000 \u00a0patterns and 1,000 colour variations. Every piece is entirely handmade and hand painted.<\/p>\n
Artist Marianna Steigervald literally grew up in Herend. Born in Veszprem in 1970, she attended primary school in Herend and grew up in a little village right next to Herend. Interested in painting and drawing from childhood, it was natural for her to \u201cseek admittance to the Vocational Secondary School of\u00a0 the Herend Manufactory where I could learn\u00a0 porcelain painting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interested in the origins or Porcelain production, she specialized in the oriental patterns and \u201cPainted these wonderful motifs for 18 years.\u201d She also demonstrated to visitors how the unique pieces were painted, foreshadowing her current career. She lived in Ireland briefly, learned English and returned to Budapest, resuming her work with Herend as a sales assistant in the \u201cbeautiful medieval setting of the Castle District.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still enjoy painting very much, and I also enjoy my new work…especially when I discovered a tea-cup that I had painted some years ago on the shelves of our shop…and sold it.\u00a0 It was an American lady looking at it, but when I told her that I painted it, she was very moved and bought it right the way, saying she will take care of it well… I remember it to this day with pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n
In her free time Marianna enjoys travelling, music, photography, drawing with her daughter and motorbike riding with her boyfriend around Europe.\u00a0 \u201cOur dream is that one day we will ride on the famous Route 66 in America,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
By P. S. News\/Features<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Caption: Beaming Herend Customer–Mrs. Sonia Cox Hamilton (Left) brought many Herend pieces to be signed by Herend Artist Marianna Steigervald (Right) during the artist\u2019s recent visit to Kelly\u2019s House and Home. Every piece of famous Herend is entirely hand made and hand painted.\u00a0 Photo by Vincent Vaughan<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some of the most elegant and desired Christmas gifts under the tree this year were signed by leading Herend Artist Marianna Steigervald, during her November visit at Kelly\u2019s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":92618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}