Antique Thai silver circular box and cover. With high relief repousse decoration. The cover with mythical beasts and a frieze of dancers to the sides. Height 7.5 cm, diameter .9 cm W158.7g). 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.