Antique Incense

French Late 18th Century Louis XVI Gilt Bronze Incense Burner or Brule Parfum A round and fluted foot surrounded by a laurel wreath standing on gilt bronze rectangular plinth whic...

Nice Quality with superb decoration. Additional information: Material: Bronze & Metal Region of Origin: Japan Period: 19th century, 20th century Condition: Some usual age signs like...

This finely cast bronze incense burner is an accomplished work of the late Edo period, attributed to Kanaya Gorōsaburō, a distinguished master of the Kanaya lineage of Kyoto bronze f...

A small hatch is cut at the top of the eagle’s back to serve as an incense burner. The eagle is considered the king of birds.

A bronze okimono of an owl, constructed in two sections, the short-eared owl (detachable) perched on a tree branch with its head cocked quizzically to the right and its wings folded ...

Neo-Gothic hanging oratory - 19th century. 19th-century English; Neo-Gothic triptych in gilded copper; with perforated plate for incense burner; with relief decoration of religious i...

This is an antique Chinese cloisonné enamel tripod censer (incense burner) dating from the late Qing Dynasty to the early 20th century.

Its distinctive form recalls traditional Chinese incense ornaments and netsuke-style carvings, reflecting the craftsmanship and decorative traditions of late 19th-century China.

Plate 227 from Volume II of Gorer and Blacker's Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, an original 1911 color plate of a pair of egg-shell bowls painted with cocks, a hen and chickens on...

Traditionally used throughout North Africa and the wider Middle East as portable tent and room heaters, as well as ceremonial incense burners during gatherings, braziers of this prop...

They were originally used as incense burners / candle holders, the lids can be inverted and inserted back in the main sections to display the gilt bronze candle holders.

A charred interior indicates the 19th-century vessel was originally used for burning fragrant incense, plants or ritual offerings. The squat vessel was sculpted by hand to a freefor...

Originally used as a household altar for incense, offerings, or ancestral tablets, it now functions beautifully as a console table, entryway piece, or behind a sofa.

Bronze censers have long been part of Chinese ritual and scholarly life, used to burn incense before ancestors, deities and in the study.

This Gilded Age incense or perfume urn is in the Louis XVI style.

The long table once resided in the main hall of a grand home or temple, where it served as an altar for prayer figures, incense burners and offerings. Sourced from Shanxi province,...

Originally used to elevate a lantern or incense burner, the table has a square-corner design with straight legs linked by humpback stretchers and a single drawer with original hardwa...

This elegant late 19th-century Japanese bronze incense burner (koro) is a finely cast decorative vessel, richly ornamented with gilt-highlighted reliefs of flowering plants and birds.

Description Nicely made Incense burner. Good condition. Marked on foot Condition Great Condition.

Designed to hold burning incense, censer bowls have been used throughout China for thousands of years.

A grand table such as this would have originally been placed against the back wall of a large hall or temple, where it served as an altar for incense burners, candles and offerings. ...

This primitive ceramic vessel is a 19th-century incense burner attributed to the Bai minority culture of Yunnan province.

The subjects are Exodus 39, the golden altar of incense and golden candlestick, and the brazen altar of burnt offering and the brazen laver.

Among the seated figures, likely the emperor's highly ranked entourage, are attendants standing close by holding various offerings for the emperor such as incense burners, flowers, s...

The open-rimmed form is traditional for Japanese incense burners or small accent pots, designed to sit neatly on a table or scholar's shelf.

At Herculaneum in the Kingdom of Naples (now Campania, Italy), excavations begun in 1711 unearthed ancient Roman bronze tripods for holding candles or thymiaterion (incense burners)....

The central field is richly populated with highly stylized scholar's objects, including vases, books, and an incense burner, often referred to as the "Hundred Antiques" motif.

The serpent was a recurrent motif in Brandt’s work appearing on andirons, vases, cachepots, paperweights and incense burners, but is perhaps best remembered in his two lamps designs,...

Originally used as an incense burner or jardiniere, the porcelain bowl is potted to a shallow, rounded form with sides that swell outwards with a graceful curve.

The striking hanging scroll, kakemono, features an image of the historical Prince Shotoku (574 - 622) at the age of 16, dressed in princely robes and a Buddhist kesa, and holding a l...

The upper section is crowned with an openwork antique-style incense burner, flanked by two ram’s heads and resting on a vase from which emerges a bouquet of six candle arms, designed...

A grand table such as this would have originally been placed against the back wall of a large hall or temple, where it served as an altar surface for incense burners, candles and off...

Use Cassolettes were originally used as scent vessels. Incense, scented pastilles or aromatic essences were placed inside; the pierced circular frieze at the neck allowed the fragran...

A Chinese Antique Copper Hand Warmer, 19th Century Description: Features a perforated lid for releasing heat or incense smoke and a pivoting metal handle for carrying.

The painted surfaces retain excellent color depth with minor, honest stabilization and surface wear consistent with age, historic chapel display, and exposure to incense/candle smoke...

The three rows of hieroglyphs below contain a Hetep-di-nesu formula, which reads: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Lord of Dedu [Busiris, a Delta city] and Wepwawet-Re Lord of A...

Arabia is washed yellow, with Sabea and the "Incense Country" lettered in the south, and the coast of Africa is edged in orange, with the dominions of the Queen of the South and Tars...

Left open and framed with scrollwork carvings, the upper shelves likely displayed altar figures or food offerings, while the lower compartments held incense, tablets and other access...

The underside of the vase bears an incense-burner symbol, a motif also employed in Chinese ceramics during the Ming period and traditionally associated with the connection between he...

Whitaker, Esq. Plate 233: Ting, or incense-burner, in green aventurine. Representing a dragon, or rather the archaic winged monster, the traditional shou lu.

The vase-shaped holder on the back of this elephant keeps that traditional image in a form adapted for use; holders of this kind took a candle in Western houses and are also describe...

Compact and elegantly domed, this box may have originally been used for cosmetics, incense, or other small valuables.A fine collector's piece that combines aesthetic charm with histo...

This shallow altar table once resided in a 19th-century Chinese home, laden with food offerings and incense as a home altar for ancestor worship. Simple and classic, the small table ...

Both functional and decorative, it serves as a beautiful incense holder while also standing alone as a striking accent object.

The accessories include candlesticks, a monstrance, an incense boat, and various altar vessels and liturgical objects.

They served as altar or offering tables for displaying incense burners, vases, family heirlooms, and ancestral portraits.

They provided a surface for incense burners, vases, religious figures, ancestral tablets, and other ceremonial objects.

They might have held incense burners, candlesticks, flowers, ancestral portraits, and other ritual or symbolic objects.

Plate 183: Group of five pieces: a spherical incense-burner or reticulated hanging globe for fragrant flowers, and perforated baskets.

Plate 200: Altar set, or garniture of five pieces: an incense-burner, ting or koro, two beaker vases, and two candlesticks.

This narrow console table once resided in a 19th-century Chinese home, laden with food offerings and incense as a home altar for ancestor worship. Simple and classic, the small table...

This painting depicts an Imperial Mandarin procession, possibly a wedding ceremony, with many brightly costumed attendants carrying a table with an archaic bronze incense censer. Thi...

These were originally used to burn joss sticks, a form of traditional incense. Each elephant wears a blanket saddle and carries a candle nozzle on his back.

The gu-form holder on the back of this elephant, a shape taken from ancient ritual bronzes, keeps that traditional image in a form adapted for use; holders of this kind took a candle...

The compact hinged shelf folds down from the shaped backplate and is supported by a central bracket, allowing each piece to function as a small wall-mounted display shelf for a vase,...

The king sits enthroned beneath a canopy while Daniel stands before him and points to the vision of the statue that appears in a glow of light at the right, as a priest tends incense...

The aged king kneels before an idol shrine among his wives, offering incense, while musicians play and a pagan statue presides from a pedestal.

The bishop stands at the altar surrounded by priests, incense rising in the background. The middle row addresses the bishop’s public ministry.

Possibly also used as an incense burner, the antique vessel is wonderful today as a tabletop planter for houseplants or ikebana arrangements.

Figure 1 is galbanum, an umbellifer from Persia with finely cut blue green leaves and a large rounded umbel of yellow flowers; its gum resin was burned as incense and used in plaster...