Antique Censer

Chinese craftsmen employed the technique to produce elaborate vessels, bowls, censers and other objects decorated with vivid polychrome enamels and gilt-bronze elements.

Particularly noteworthy are censers and braziers with elaborately decorated lids, frequently painted in several colours.

Likely intended as a decorative censer or ornamental vase, this work embodies the refined aesthetic and technical mastery associated with the Japanese decorative arts of the Meiji er...

This motif of fine vases, censers, fruits and flowers is known as "Hundred Treasures" and celebrates beauty and craftsmanship in the fine arts.

The mule’s saddlecloth boasts an embossed dragon pattern, with dangling ornaments attached to its gear, and its headpiece is embellished with a silver crest 紋 (mon) depicting three s...

This finely crafted miniature Satsuma porcelain censer, dating to the Meiji Era, is a rare and exquisite example of Japanese ceramic artistry.

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Each one is decorated in polychrome enamel with different ancient censers and ritual vessels filled with blooming peonies and flowering bonsai trees in the Famille Rose color palette...

Each grouping includes vases, censers, and containers filled with flowering branches and symbolic elements, interspersed with implements and abstract forms that reflect Chinese-inspi...

Each grouping features an array of vessels, censers, and containers adorned with floral sprays, fruiting branches, and symbolic implements, arranged in a balanced and rhythmic sequen...

The design is arranged in three horizontal registers, each depicting stylized altar tables bearing an assortment of vases, censers, and flowering branches, accompanied by symbolic im...

A high quality antique Japanese, Meiji era, Silver wire enamel tripod censer koro attributed to Hayashi Kodenji, Japanese, 1831 to 1915.

The design is arranged in three horizontal registers, each presenting an array of stylized vases, censers, and ritual objects set upon low tables, accompanied by flowering branches a...

The open field is populated by delicate, asymmetrical sprays of blossoms emanating from stylized vases and censers, rendered in soft pinks, oranges, and greens.

The lower section is decorated with bouquets of flowers, censers, and numerous inlaid wooden flowers. In the upper section, we also find numerous flowers and a central medallion depi...

Hand warmers, also known as sleeve censers (xiulu), are considered a luxury personal accessory.

Surrounding this focal point, various auspicious objects—including stylized vases, censers, and potted fruit trees—are scattered across the field, typical of high-quality antique rug...

Usually depicted as an elderly man, Solomon is shown here with more youthful features, incensing a golden idol with a censer, surrounded by various female figures.

Pair of vintage Asian bronze incense burners A pair of bronze censers with lids, handles, and knobs as mythological animals, China circa 1930.

Archangel Selaphiel is the angel of prayer and worship, known in Eastern Orthodox and some Christian traditions as the one who presents human prayers to God, helping believers with f...

To make sense of this variability, objects are typically classified into functional categories such as bowls, pots, ewers (or jugs), plates, boxes, lamps, pillows, candlesticks, cens...

Pair of black cast bronze Japanese candleholders censer. Oriental antique late 19th century Meiji period Japanese heavy black bronze candlesticks incense burner, censer decorated wi...

Saint Samon is depicted as a middle-aged man with dark hair and a small beard with a cross in his hands; Aviv as a young, beardless man in a deacon’s stole holding a censer. The ico...

Seated on a throne beneath a rich canopy, she modestly accepts the offerings presented to her: a maidservant brings her a censer, an old man presents her with a wreath of flowers, a...

Antique Italian softly patinated green bronze tripod oil lamp / votive candle stand in the classical style popularized during the Grand Tour period with three figural bird figures wi...

Symbolic Elegance: A Pair of Japanese Bronze Goose Koros, Late 19th Century This captivating pair of Japanese bronze koros, or censers, from the late 19th century, embodies the exqu...

Early 19th Century (1830) Crowned Lion of Judah shaped censer made of 800-silver by Candido Silva in Buenos Aires for the Bishop Mariano Medrano y Cabrera. 9.5H x 14W x 4D (inch) ...

The exterior is darkened by a black lacquer finish and hand-painted with charming decorative motifs, including bronze censers, flower vases, scrolls, and scholars' objects.

A fantastic Japanese Satsuma incense burner, koro, with phoenix and brocade designs and a silver lid, Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan. The censer, called a koro in Japan, of ...

Initially used to hang either censers or lanterns.

Note the carved wooden headrest, blue and white censer, and opulent low bed, carved with a trellis back and ruyi-formed legs.

The top is surmounted by a bronze censer-form finial with curved handles. The base is edged with a gilt bronze border featuring stylized lion masks and geometric patterns and rests o...

A gorgeous green glazed large Chinese pottery censer of Archaistic shape called a fanghu, set on a separate stand, Qing dynasty, second year of Tongzhi, 1863.

The body of the censer features a pair of phoenixes among paulownia on one side, and an eagle and crane among pine the other.

A beautifully patinated copper lid featuring a hanabishi mon surmounts the censer.

Each door panel displays birds and objects including a scene of incense burners, censers, pots, ornate boxes and flowers. Featuring a Chinese Greek key medallions and happiness symbo...

Designed in the shape of a censer, the vase features gracefully tall green-glazed handles and is elevated on three elegantly curved legs.

Beside the little normal wear, there is no damage and all parts are secured in their settings. This antique censer has been carefully inspected to guarantee the condition and authent...

On the left is an Old Testament priest before the tabernacle, holding a censer and wearing traditional vestments, representing “The Law.”

A wonderful example of functional art or an interesting objet d'art, whether used once again to burn oil for primitive lighting, as a votive candle holder, chamber candlestick stand,...

A charming Chinese green glazed pottery censer or incense burner, Qing Dynasty, late 19th century.

Known as lamp angels or thuriferaries, they were carvings that were usually placed on important altars to hold lamps or censers, being identified with angels or archangels.

One of angels, on its knees, raises a censer. On the left another angel, also on its knees, lets its censor burn.

The smoke from the censers rises nearly to the top border. Measures: 3' 0'' x 5' 8''.  

She holds a gold staff in her right hand and a gold censer suspended by a cord in her left. The camel is realistically modeled with a textured, fur-like porcelain surface in shades o...

Likely Jun ware, Northern Song Dynasty (960 to 1127) Hand-crafted in China over 1000 years ago, the Song dynasty was a golden age of Chinese ceramics when art peaked and techniques ...

Beautifully commemorated on this squared ginger jar, tripod censers and bronze ritual vessels have been used for thousands of years in Chinese culture as a part of funeral rites and ...

These types of sculptures were common in the 19th century both for churches and for personal altars, alone holding lamps or censers or forming part of some composition. Weight: 4.7...

Beneath the latticework are decorative panels carved with scrolls, censers, and other precious scholars' objects, the like of which would be placed on display on the shelves within.

Next to her bed there is a censer and a gilded vase carved with cherubs, filled with flowers; scattered at her feet are roses, pearl and coral necklaces.

Placed to the side of the altar, the chest may have held ancestral tablets and incense and provided an additional surface for offerings, censers and figures. The low chest has a re...

Distinctive sculptural form, smaller scale, they make for a highly decorative pair of table sculptures, vases, cabinet statues, or traditional censers, sure to add sophisticated anti...

Square Perforated Box : Porcelain cube with perforations on the top, possibly a censer or an ink palette or a small flower pot. Each side is decorated with floral patterns.

The composition is surrounded by symbolic still-life vignettes of vases, scrolls, censers, and scholar’s objects, emblematic of the refined literati culture of the Qing dynasty.

Three slender flanges originate from a subtle ridge on the shoulder and extend gracefully down each leg. The entire censer is adorned with a lustrous, uniform sea-green glaze.

The painting is set in a simple wooden frame and secured by a hardwood base decorated with carvings of fu lions, dragons, vases, and censers. From the collection of Frances and Gar...

Styled after an ancient Chinese temple incense burner censer, monumental scale, whimsical Gothic Victorian taste, featuring highly detailed dragons wrapped around a pair of tall outs...

Meiji Period, late 19th century, Japan. The koro, or censer, features a stoneware body of slightly compressed globular form, supported on three short and squat legs.

Small vases such as these were an integral part of incense sets, which would have included a small box to store precious incense, a censer to burn the incense, tongs and a spoon, and...

The curved sides of the body of the censer finely painted in raised enamel and gilt, with images of rakan, court ladies, and boys.