While the vase looks more Middle Eastern or Asian it might come from a Dutch ship. It forms part of the Captain Thomson collection at the Cooktown Museum.
As indicated in the label below the picture it may have found by Frank Jardine, an early landowner, settler and police commissioner in Cape York.
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See also: First Dutch contacts in Australia – Cape York and Torres Strait 1606 to 1643
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