Fine Chinese Thai market 'Benjarong' bowl & cover. Enamelled with auspicious symbols and bats with Dharma wheel pendants, late 19th/early 20th century metal bound rims. Diameter 21.5 cm. 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.