Sacred Bird Butterfly - Dinner Plate Color:Blue vegetables

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leaves and seed pods float and intertwine in a graceful and understated dance of images

Blade Length: 6 inches

and all the incredible Asian influences that have coloured her time in Sydney

single-bevel 16° edge

Sacred Bird Butterfly - Dinner Plate Color:Blue vegetablesThe 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