Chinese Mottled Celadon Jade Handled Vase.
Carved with taotie masks. 19th C or earlier.
Of mottled pale olive tone with calcified inclusions.
(H15.5cm)

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 $200-300