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Lot 1028
Set of Four Chinese Export Thousand Butterflies Porcelain Plates
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Late 19th century, includes four dishes hand painted with a myriad of colorful butterflies within a conforming border with a gilt ground, unmarked.

8 in. dia.

From the Estate of the late Margaret Fisher Terry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chapel Hill, North Carolina

One with a hairline and antique repair, some with minor losses at the rims and associated retouching, wear to the polychrome decoration and surface scratches.