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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;blooey, post: 3035000, member: 12007&quot;]Valerie, In 18thc., the era when your piece was produced, the addition of small insects to the decoration of porcelain was to disguise the blackish iron spots in the glaze, as we spoke about above.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know where the practice originated, possibly&nbsp; at Meissen, they were at the forefront of most early innovation, so quite likely. These insect devices were soon seen in other factory productions and not always used as something to disguise a flaw but as a design element in an attempt to appeal to the same upmarket customers. </p><p>Eventually magnets were introduced into the manufacture of the porcelain and the iron spots disappeared from the wares ...in the meantime though, these insect devices were decidedly fashionable and included as part of the decorators toolbox.</p><p>In my opinion the pattern of your piece is very like a European porcelain design of the period, which is the reason why some people suggested it was a Chinese piece decorated in Europe&nbsp; ..logical to some degree, but to me it seems far more likely that this service was based on a German original taken to China by a merchant in order to fulfill a request from a European family. This practice is certainly not unique as there are many other examples of similar services known.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding my own pieces, well, apart from the decoration, they are very typical of late 18thc Chinese Export porcelain both in construction, shape and paste. The &quot;helmet&quot; creamer, for instance. is a typical late 18th/early 19th shape we see in Chinese Export.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://artshuttle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Chinese-Export-service-helmet-creamer.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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