Antique 19th Century German KPM Porcelain Lidded Bowl Tureen Birds Butterflies Paintings Antique Japanese Meiji Period Ivory

Antique Japanese Meiji Period Ivory Figural Group / Okimono

a single drawer below with a writing slope

the top having brass dividers/supports with two moveable modular units one with four drawers the other with twin cupboard doors

made in Paris circa 1880

Each guard stands crossed legged on a plinth decorated with an elephant

Antique 19th Century German KPM Porcelain Lidded Bowl Tureen Birds Butterflies Paintings Antique Japanese Meiji Period IvoryA very elegant antique 19th century KPM porcelain hand painted & gilded lidded bowl tureen, decorated with birds & butterflies, 1840 1895. This very handsome lidded tureen made by the acclaimed German porcelain maker KPM (Konigliche Porzellan Manufaktur), having a shaped & gilded finial to the lid and finely hand painted with brightly colored woodland birds and butterflies. The bowl having twin gilded handles naturalistically modeled as tree branches