My grandmother, via my uninterested mother, gave me a set of 12 of everything in this rose porcelain. It dates from the period post-1911, the end of the Ching Dynasty, when a policy of improving exports suggested to the Chinese that honest labeling might be a good idea.
The cups and saucers are so thin they glow with backlighting. The painting is nicely executed, so I can guess the dishes were not real tourist trash.
At the old China Trade Museum we called this kind of pattern "bbfi" or "birds, butterflies, flowers and insects" The shorthand made filling out collection records much easier.
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