Antique Incense

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...

The blue border serves not merely as a frame but as a narrative threshold, where incense burners, coral branches, scholar’s rocks, and auspicious vessels whisper of domestic tranquil...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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,...

The sides feature unique, shaped subsidiary panels: the upper reserves are modeled as incense burners (censers), while the lower ones take the form of auspicious fruits (pomegranates...

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...

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

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

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.

Could be used for candle or incense. This large floor candle holder could be rewired into a floor lamp.

Offerings are being made, including incense, food, and possibly ritual bloodletting, while a woman feeds a child in the foreground.

In Mediterranean herbal traditions, a resin called labdanum is extracted from certain cistus varieties (such as Cistus ladanifer), which was used by ancient Egyptians in perfumes and...

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...

Galbanum, historically prized for its medicinal resin, was used in ancient remedies and incense. The Hungarian Gentian, native to Central European meadows, is increasingly rare due t...

The back panel is also richly decorated, featuring stylized blossoms, scholar's rocks, incense burners, and archaic vessels in mother-of-pearl, framed with a mountainous crest rail.

This elegant table 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.

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

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.

Believed to have evolved from the traditional accessories of Japanese incense ceremony, tabako-bons first came into use in the 17th century and were often beautifully decorated to di...

A table of this grand scale would have been placed against the back wall of a large hall or temple where it would have served as a platform for incense burners, candles, and offering...

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

There are clear burn marks on its frontal side from having occupied a shrine, likely from candles or incense which would have been placed in close proximity.   

A fine Japanese small lacquer box for precious incense, kogo, Edo period, mid 19th century, Japan.

The central base has a recognized and documented Kangxi symbol of a four legged ding (incense burner), hand-painted within a double blue circle.

The table has aprons carved with interlocking rings, symbols of eternity, and beaded “incense stick” legs, which imparts a rhythmic lightness to the stone's dense texture.

For her business she ventured to Japan on her own to assemble netsuke and related works of art, including pipe cases and kogo (incense containers). Betty was also a founding member a...

This nice tea bowl/cup (might also be incense burner) from the early 17th century. With a Wucai/Verte scene of a wise man in a garden.

The seated figure would have held a place of honor in the home, surrounded by incense and offerings on the family’s altar.

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

The beauty of the patina is rich with its past use. One can still see incense burns and the original oxblood lacquer.

A very special Japanese Rinpa style small lacquer box for incense accessories, kobako, by Santo Kyosui (1816 to 1867), late Edo period (1603 to 1868), mid 19th century, Kyoto, Japan.

Wisps of stylized smoke in tones of sky and chambray blue emanate from the top of the pagoda incense holder, offering an abstract counterpoint to the figurative orientalist motifs.

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 ...

Known as Soban (small plate), this type of light weight table was used primarily as individual dining table to present and serve foods, but also as small desk, incense burner holder ...

Due to the durability of stone, inlaid tables such as this were also used as surfaces for burning incense or pouring wine. Deaccessioned from the MacLean Collection of Asian Art.

This mid-19th century console table was likely used as an offering table bearing incense. Appealing to the rarified taste of China’s literati, this Qing-dynasty table depicts auspici...

Excellent 19th century French Louis XVI decorative Imari Porcelain gilt bronze mount bowl A 19th century Chinese blue and red Imari ware bowl mounted on a round Louis XVI style open...

A variety of elaborate handicrafts were created by hollowing out stones for everyday tools such as pots, kettles, braziers, and incense burners. Stone vessels, which conduct heat slo...

Double dragon medallions grace the corners, while elephants, symbols of wisdom and strength, carry incense on their backs in deference to Buddhist or ancestor rituals.

On the left side of the clock plinth is a three legged stand supporting a round incense burner. The rectangular base of the clock is highly decorated in gilded bronze mounts across t...

This Japanese censer incense burner, inspired by Chinese pieces, is of spheroidal form, the bronze body with polychrome champlevé enamel work flanked by dragon-head handles and ring ...

This long, elegant altar table once provided a place to burn incense or display valuable art objects. It may have been used in the reception hall of a private mansion or in an ancest...

Antique Chinese archaic style bronze enamel Champlevé Censer / Incense Burner, circa 1900. The lidded censer having a male Foo dog finial, below the censer having enamel decoration ...

These “makers of nothing and sellers of everything” as described by Diderot also invented new models for porcelain by giving them pierced mounts and turning them into incense burners...

Both dogs have a small hole on the top of the head for incense to be placed. Each piece weighs about 700gm unpacked Overall a lovely pair of antique Chinese Foo Dogs or Lion Dogs ...

The surface of the painting appears to have been in a place where it was lightly darkened from candle or incense smoke. The paint layer is flat and original with no restorations.

The compositions skilfully incorporate neoclassical elements, such as Klismos chairs and incense burners.

“‘Veneto-Saracenic’ Metalwork: An Analysis of the Bowls and Incense Burners in the British Museum.” In Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europ...

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 form is both classic and functional, designed to serve as a censer for incense burning. What sets this censer apart is its extraordinary glaze work.