Chinese Export porcelain Butterfly' Pattern covered Tureen and Undertray Late 19th-early 20th Century The tureen having an oval bulbous body With intertwined gilt strap handles surmounted by a stepped lid with a gilt knob finial, raised on a stepped oval foot; the undertray having an oval body with a shallow cavetto enclosed within a flared rim. The covered tureen polychrome decorated with butterflies, the undertray decorated with butterflies, grasshoppers and spiders in shades of red, green, blue, yellow, black and gilt. The tureen with crack to body H of covered tureen: 10.25 tn; W 13.25 t'n L of undertray.. 15.5 W 12in See illustration