Fine Chinese white jade rectangular pendant plaque. 18th/19th century the even translucent white stone carved with a bat and peach branch above clouds, the obverse with pines and gazebo by a mountain lake. (5 x 3.5 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.