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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ValerieK, post: 3033039, member: 7360&quot;]Blooey, thank you very much for your expertise, I think I can leave off searching now and regard it as Chinese, decorated to order for a European customer, and rare! (It has a little bit of damage so I don&#039;t think I can regard it as very valuable, but probably worth more than I paid for the lot it was in.) Although the insect is still a bit of a puzzle, maybe the flaw was disguised by the recipient, the painting is so crude.&nbsp; And there are still several people who think perhaps European decoration.&nbsp; Maybe there is a European service that was used as a pattern, if the design was taken out to China.</p><p>How did you identify your wonderful tea service?&nbsp; Did it come with provenance, perhaps kept carefully by the original owners and then handed down for generations?&nbsp; Or did you find clues in the fabric and decoration?&nbsp; It looks so incredibly top class European.&nbsp; I have sometimes toured stately homes in England and gazed at the china in cabinets, but I never picture myself using them, rather I imagine being the scullery maid who has to handle them carefully while washing them up, afraid of breaking an item worth a month&#039;s wages![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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