Sacred Bird & Butterfly Cake Plate by Mottahedeh Gordian Knot The design of this plate

The design of this plate is highly decorated but simple at the same time

It is stunning used in pairs on a mantlepiece or dining table - with or without flowers

Oriente Italiano Iris Tete a Tete Coffee Set by Richard Ginori

This little treasure is an exact reproduction of a porcelain purchased by Mottahedeh from Christie's auction in 1992 featuring recovered cargo of of the Vung Tau sailing ship

or a handful of nuts

Sacred Bird & Butterfly Cake Plate by Mottahedeh Gordian Knot The design of this plateSacred Bird & Butterfly Cake Plate by Mottahedeh This large round flat plate has many uses but we like the large flat size for a cake. Licensed product of Historic Charleston. The Sacred Butterfly was a Chinese export pattern cica 1750 1760. It 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