Antique Incense

The tapestry features a sumptuous palette characteristic of 18th-century Aubusson: Deep reds for the drapery, Bold blues providing harmony and contrast, Golds and warm beiges, Green...

The vessel’s form and motifs suggest it may have served as a cosmetic jar, incense container, or scholar’s desk accessory, blending utility with aesthetic pleasure.

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

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

A small, discreet hole in each wing allows incense smoke to escape, creating a beautiful and ethereal effect as it wafts from the bird's back.

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

In 1885 he recorded in his journal his admiration for the colors, candle light and incense of the ceremonies at the local church. He frequented the Louvre, and admired especially the...

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.

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.

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...

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.

The pierced, hollowed mouths on each figure suggest a function as incense holders, a form commonly produced in pairs to flank an incense burner on a ritual altar.

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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 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 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.

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) ...

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...

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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

The censer would have been used for burning incense.

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

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

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...

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.

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.

The coal would be used to light incense sticks, which would then be placed upright in the sand.

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.

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.

While the word has other meanings in culinary respects, in the decorative arts, cassolettes are small covered vases meant to hold perfumed substances or incense. Popular during the 1...

A tripod polychrome cloisonné incense burner, decorated with characters and masks.

The darken patina is created through years of burning of incense with the original gold painting still shining through.

The darken patina is created through years of burning of incense with the original gold gilt painting still shining through.

Crafted by artisans in China's Gansu province, this 19th-century table was once topped with flowers, portraits, and incense as part of the ritual practice of honoring ancestors.

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...

The removable patinated Bronze lids showcases star shaped openings for the incense to emit into the room. The top crown of each urn contains a flaming torch representing the flame wi...

Topped with offerings of food, burning incense, and painted images of the deceased, this enchanting coffer played a central role in Chinese ancestor worship.

A remarkable Edo Period (1603-1868) Japanese patinated bronze Buddhistic lion censer, exceptionally executed sculptural shishi foo dog form, finely detailed, retaining the original r...

At the center is an elongated urn for incense or potpourri. In the front are two feather holders.

Unusual decorative elements elevate the basin and suggest its original use as an outdoor incense burner for ancestor worship. We love the gentle curve of the basin's top edge and the...

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,...