Antique Incense

Jars are characterized by their bulbous shape and high shoulders and would have been used to hold ceremonial items, incense, or other ritualistic items in temples or homes.

A pair of rampant lions leaning on a goblet-shaped burning incense alter is reminiscent of the incense alter used at the ancient temple.

Between the figures stands an altar table with a tripod incense burner issuing fragrant smoke toward a blank spirit tablet or mirror, the metaphysical portal through which the ancest...

The plate displays an extraordinary range of hanging lamps, incense burners, oil vessels, hookah components, pipes, metal bowls, basins, candlesticks, ritual containers, and architec...

Crafted of northern elmwood in China's Shanxi province, this early 19th-century altar table was once used to display an ancestral shrine in a provincial Confucian household. Incense,...

The purpose of small carved amphoras in China varied, but they were primarily for decorative display or held valuable contents like incense, precious oils, or small portions of speci...

Originally crafted as a large incense holder, the pierced lid was designed to allow fragrant smoke to gently diffuse throughout a room.

Alongside fine sculpture, he created Art Deco functional decorative objects such as electric lamps, ashtrays, and incense burners—making pieces like the lamp above a perfect combinat...

The Chinese small bronze censer, or incense burner, was cast as the figure of a mythical Luduan, a creature with a leonine body, a single horn, and the paws of a bear.

Often referred to as altar tables, these slender tables are also used as a domestic altars for familial ancestor worship, laden with incense, figures, and offerings. This miniature ...

Items for use at the tea ceremony are also being made along with incense burner, sake flasks and vases. All are of the highest quality.

A nice planter, catch all or place to burn incense. The piece is heavily and beautifully patinated, with a great deal of character - also a nice center piece.

The lid lifts to reveal a deep incense burner wherein burning embers and grains of incense would be placed.

You will also find areas of burn marks where they used their incense burners. Many years ago, an Englishman who dealt in Chinese antique furniture once told me, that as good as I tho...

Dating back to the seventh century AD, the kuanhuo (changing of fire) ceremony took place, where people would cleanse their homes with incense. However, in some parts of East Asia, i...

The left side depicts the naked girl (hetera-ierodula) playing the diaulos, right side depicts a vestal burning incense and the larger front panel depicts the birth of Aphrodite from...

While serving as priest, Zechariah stands before the altar of incense when the angel Gabriel appears, surrounded by a cloud of divine light and smoke.

She is seated on her rear paws and holding a hazelnut on her front paws, it is perforated so the whole sculpture could be used as an incense burner. Even though rats have a poor repu...

A pair of high quality Japanese early Meiji period bronze and cloisonne enamel planter pots or koro incense burners, each of a globular form with a short flared neck, the exterior is...

Unique and rare find of an old Japanese double-eared pottery tea utensil ware for the use of flowering or incense made of the well-burnt blackish clay containing rich in iron in the ...

The four-post frame is inset with gilded fretwork and relief panels of various ribbon-clad treasures, including scrolls & books, incense burners, instruments, coins & ingots and fine...

A large Japanese covered tripod enamel censer koro or incense burner. The sphere form ware is enameled with polychrome medallions representing cranes and birds in blossoming flowers ...

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) ...

Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Incense Burners Japanese Style: Satsuma Region of Origin: Period: 19th century, 20th century Meiji Periode (1867-1912) Or...

The images include an incense burner and incense tools, and various plants and fruits.

These treasures, often including scrolls, vases, and incense burners, are beautifully rendered in intricate detail, symbolizing prosperity, knowledge, and harmony.

The design draws its inspiration from the classical incense burner which had a tripod stand and was intended for ornamentation or as a perfume burner.

The shape of the piece is typical of this type of container for holding incense (in fact, the name naveta comes from the word "nave") since the Middle Ages (nave of the Constables' C...

A pair of 19th century Chinese blue and white vases each hand-painted with various scholar's objects including vases filled with chrysanthemums, and flanked by pairs of incense burne...

The plate has a central hand-painted pattern of flowers issuing from a rocky base with an incense burner and small flower vase, standing on a table at the side, all set within an inn...

The crucifix has on its surfaces centuries of candle smoke, incense and a great original unpolished patina.

The portrait is enclosed in an oval cartouche surrounded by rich Baroque ornamentation: smoking incense pots, rosaries, books, angels’ heads, and Latin inscriptions.

The domed lid, elegantly fluted and surmounted by a crescent moon finial, rises like a minaret above the pierced body, allowing tendrils of incense smoke to spiral gently through the...

An octagonal wooden table, filled with assorted objects, sits near a delicately rendered incense burner, from which ethereal smoke curls into the air.

This round ceramic incense burner has a classic tripod form with a round body, square strap handles, and three tripod legs, molded to resemble mythical fu lion dogs.

Marked on the base with an incense burner. The first of this kind we have ever seen in our career.

Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Incense Burners Region of Origin: Japan Period: Meiji Periode (1867-1912) Original/Reproduction: Original Condition:Overal...

A table of this proportion would have originally been used in a traditional Chinese home as an incense stand, for serving wine or for displaying potted landscapes or other collectibles.

The sculptural tail features an open cavity for use as an incense burner. True to Japanese esthetic, the work is subtly sculpted and expressively powerful.

A small and finely decorated Japanese Satsuma tripod incense burner (koro), signed Kyozan, Meiji period, circa 1900, Japan.

A table with such a grand scale would have originally been placed against the back wall of a large hall or temple where it would have served as a platform for incense burners, candle...

Among them are scrolls, incense burners, vases, and traditional objects associated with scholarly refinement and good fortune, interwoven with blooming peonies, cherry blossoms, and ...

This was possibly a church thurible for burning incense in or a water font or baptismal font. Use as a planter to hang a fern in or turn into a ceiling fixture.

Royal Empire Desk/Bureau Plat, Gilt Bronze Mahogany with gilded bronze fittings in the form of female figures, incense burners, acanthus decoration and garlands.

Items for use at the tea ceremony are also being made along with incense burner, sake flasks and vases. All are of the highest quality.

Items for use at the tea ceremony are also being made along with incense burner, sake flasks and vases. All are of the highest quality.

Korea has had a long-standing "stone culture," and the custom of using stone for everyday tools, such as stone mills, stone incense burners, and stone ashtrays, has been passed down ...

Pair of Blue-ground porcelain potpourri / incense vases with eagle finials and griffin supports.

The legs are beaded in the style of “incense stick” and are jointed to the top panel by using unmitered tenoned joints.

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,...

There is a top lid that is removable and could be used for candle or incense. This large floor candle holder could be rewired into a floor lamp.

Additional information: Material: Porcelain & Pottery Type: Incense Burners, Koro Region of Origin: Japan Period: Meiji Periode (1867-1912) Age: ca 1900 Original/Reproduction: Origin...

At the heart of the composition, an exuberant garden of symbolism blooms: peony sprays and flowering prunus branches twist around scholarly scrolls, hanging lanterns, fretwork vases,...

In this evocative image, two women, their attention focused on a book, enter a room containing an altar table laden with smoking incense, auspicious plants, and other offerings. The ...

Japanese silver and enamel Incense Burner (Koro) Meiji era (1868-1912), late 19th century.

1060(W)× 1400(H) × 85(D) [mm]　32kg Estimate packing size: W115cm H150cm D20cm 48kg Firelight (Kato-style) window used in temple building materials So named because of its shape that...

This piece would have been used to burn incense or potpourri, filling a room with delightful scents while also serving as a striking decorative element.