Sacred Bird & Butterfly Crescent Salad Plate by Mottahedeh: The Daily Dish

The Sacred Bird and Butterfly Crescent Salad Plate is filled with birds and butterflies in an all over pattern.

Crescent Salad Plates are a wonderful alternative to traditional round salad plates.  They fit beautifully next to a dinner plate and can be used for anything that requires separation from the rest of the meal such as a salad, discarded bones or shell, or fruits and sides.

The 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 pattern. The marriage of shape and design was a success and was reproduced in English china of about 1800-1810. Our reproductions are based on originals in Historic Charleston. Dishwasher safe.

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