Large 18th/19th C Burmese Carved Ivory Tusk.
Carved and lacquered with nine seated Buddhas.
NB: ivory export restrictions. (Dia.10cm approx. at base, H55cm)

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 $800-1,500