Chinese Pale Celadon & Mottled Grey Jade Archaistic Style Censer. 18th/19th C. Finely carved diapers and taotie masks with dragon handles. Lacking cover.
PROVENANCE: Estates Late Adolphe and Asra Alexander, a German-Thai couple involved with architecture, interior design and import-export merchant trading, initially operating in Bangkok they moved to Brisbane in 1960. Asra was the daughter of a German merchant living in Thailand whose company imported luxury European goods, and (with royal warrant) counted the Thai palace among their customers. Thence by descent - private collection, Canberra. (W14cm) Estimate $1,000-3,000