19th century, includes seven dinner plates and one leaf shaped dish, porcelain hand painted with the "Thousand Butterfly" pattern featuring a myriad of colorful butterflies to center surrounded by a thick gilt ground rim populated with more butterflies.

Leaf Dish 2 1/4 x 11 x 9 in., Dinner Plates 8 1/2 in. diameter

From the Collection of Robert Jenks, Durham, North Carolina

Leaf dish has rim chips and rubbing with loss to gilt; dinner plates, one with rim chips, one with extensive repairs.