Antique Incense

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 ...

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

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.

The fitted bronze cover is pierced with cloud-form smoke vents allowing incense to escape when in use and is surmounted by a finely modelled crouching bird finial.

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

While it can therefore no longer be used as originally intended, a small dish can be placed on the top, as shown in the photographs, allowing the piece to be repurposed as an incense...

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...

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

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 ...

An unusual and rare Satsuma ceramic kogo (Japanese incense box) in the form of an egg, decorated with gold and polychrome enamels, raised on three small feet, signed Kinkozan-zo.

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,...

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...

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...

Equipped with a discreet wire loop at the top for wall mounting, this piece can be hung vertically as a striking modern wall sculpture or utilized horizontally as a rustic display tr...

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

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.

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

The top would hold objects such as ancestral tablets, religious figures, incense burners, and offerings. The imposing height and symbolic decoration complemented this ceremonial purp...

Curious small incense box, or kōgō, in red and pink lacquer, fashioned in the form of a split pomegranate.

Its simple yet harmonious form reflects Tibetan Buddhist artistic traditions, while the chain-secured lid hints at functional use—possibly for water, incense, offerings, or ritual p...

There are residues of incense and tikka powder from worship. 4 inches (10 cm) high, 6-1/8 inches (15.5 cm) as based Ex private collection Northern CA; ex Eduard Smit, Netherlands; ex...

Also called Foo Dog or Foo lions. Likely to hold incense or similar. Fine engraved decoration; good patination & wear commensurate with age. 4 7/8" h., 3.5" d., 2.25" w.

The design features include potted plants, incense burners, and other traditional Chinese emblems—thoughtfully arranged to convey balance, harmony, and well-being.

A refined decorative object that works equally well as a catchall, incense holder, or small centerpiece. The organic form and hand worked surface lend it a sculptural presence beyond...

Thoughtfully crafted, the integrated bottle opener is both functional and cleverly concealed within the design, while the shallow bowl serves equally well as a traditional ashtray or...

The central opening indicates that this is not a regular plate or saucer, but rather a stand or holder, most likely for a bowl or incense burner (kōro). Given its proportions and th...

Beautiful as a standalone sculptural object, or used as a flower vessel, incense holder, or display piece within a contemporary interior.

A large Japanese bronze sculpture depicting an oni lifting a Buddhist ceremonial kōro (incense burner) with his left hand. The figure, kneeling, rests the other hand on his hip for b...

Originally a mid to late 19th century suspended thurible / incense burner and reworked as a table lamp somewhere in the middle of the 20th century.

Originally intended as a wine table, incense table, or small altar table, its versatile scale translates effortlessly into contemporary interiors.

Pre-Columbian Earthenware Incensario, El Chanal, Colima, Western Mexico A large incense burner/brazier depicting the rain god Tlaloc from the El Chanal area in Colima.

The central composition brings together auspicious symbols and furnishings associated with the study and cultivated world of the Chinese scholar, including large flower-filled vases ...

Small incense box (kōgō) in black persimmon wood, carved in the form of a textured, charred and overturned tree stump upon which rests a cricket.

While they may have served as small brush pots or scholar’s table vessels, they could also have been intended for incense, tea utensils, or other scholarly or domestic use.

This pair of monumental cassolettes from the nineteenth century is an exceptional example of French decorative arts from the Napoleon III period. These impressive incense burners are...

They appeared on household altars, scholar's desks, incense burners and ritual stands, serving both devotional and decorative purposes.

Model n°2618 Earthenware Imperial Stone Charming earthenware part table service composed of 10 small plates, 2 square dishes, 3 round dishes, 2 rectangular dishes, with polychrome d...

Small circular lacquered wood incense box (kōgō). The exterior of the concave cover is decorated with three crabs rendered in fundame, hiramaki-e, and takamaki-e in gold.

An antique Japanese enamel footed incense burner, Ota Kichisaburo School, Meiji period, 1868 to 1912.

Traces of offerings have been discovered within some examples, including incense, indicating their probable ceremonial and funerary use.

This piece would have been used for burning incense. X

Originally conceived most likely as candlesticks or incense holders, these pieces were later converted into electric table lamps, preserving their strong decorative and historical ch...

The composition emphasizes spiritual practice and temple ritual, enhanced by the atmospheric depiction of rising incense smoke. The second plate functions as an object study, illustr...

This censer would have been used for burning incense, a common practice in Chinese culture for religious and ceremonial purposes.

The larger and more imposing rooster is conceived as an incense burner. Period: Edo period, first half of the 19th century Dimensions (rooster): 23 × 15 × 10 cm Dimensions (hen): 10...

Kōgō (incense box) in textured and lacquered wood, shaped like a physalis.

Attributed to the Peranakan Chinese communities of southeast Asian colonial ports, this table updates the stone-top incense table of Qing-dynasty furniture with features found in Wes...

They were employed in the preparation of medicinal herbs, rare spices, pigments, dyes, incense, and culinary ingredients, serving as essential instruments in both domestic and ceremo...

This extraordinary borderless rug displays two facing, seated fierce lion-dogs guarding a central human statue figure bearing a smoking incense burner. Two roosters flutter above. Th...

This fine lacquer stacking cabinet of gold and black is a variation on a cabinet for incense. It contains small boxes within boxes to hold incense woods and an outer tray in the form...

When a traveling family, monk, or lama set up camp, the table would be unpacked to serve two main functions: Portable Altar: It acted as a temporary, sacred Buddhist shrine to suppor...

Kōgō (incense box) in lacquered wood shaped like a chestnut.

hanging from their original pierced brass chains these censers with urn shaped bodies each extending three arms with c-scroll decorations, censers were used in churches to burn incen...

The engraving presents an elegant collection of classical ritual vessels, incense burners, ceremonial stands, bronze utensils, and antiquarian decorative objects inspired by ancient ...