Sacred Bird & Butterfly Five Piece Place Setting Arcades Green Chinese blue and white porcelain

Chinese blue and white porcelain was in demand in this country well into the nineteenth century and has become a part of the heritage of many American families

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Sacred Bird & Butterfly Five Piece Place Setting Arcades Green Chinese blue and white porcelainThe Sacred Butterfly was a Chinese export pattern of about 1800 and was intended for those who admired the sophistication of placing traditional Chinese motifs of birds, butterflies and flowers on European shapes. The Chinese word for butterfly, tieh, is a pun which expresses the wish that the owner might live to a ripe age. These motifs were rendered with characteristic understatement in the traditional Chinese orange and gold colors in an all over