Chinese Hand Knotted Wool Pictorial Rug.
Woven with scholar's objects and vase with lotus, early 20th C. (124x66cm)

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 $100-200