2 19th C Thai Ivory Book Pointers. Both with pierced, carved terminals. A near identical example is in the Met collection. Accession No. 1987.420.6. NB: ivory export restrictions. (L18cm, & 23cm)
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. Estimate $200-400