Sacred Bird & Butterfly 5 Piece Place Setting by Mottahedeh Registry An elegant frame in the

An elegant frame in the round with a string of pearls to astound

Made of natural hand-woven rattan

the plate is finished with 22-carat gold

the body of the vase is embossed with an organic linear design

Sacred Bird & Butterfly 5 Piece Place Setting by Mottahedeh Registry An elegant frame in theSacred Bird & Butterfly 5 Piece Place Setting by Mottahedeh 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