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Origin: UK   Shape: Building   Material: Ceramic
Location: J. Clayton Spears and Co., Atlanta
Description: Staffordshire Cottage Pastille Burner. A scented pastille was placed inside the cottage, set alight, and the smoke rose through the chimney. You could probably do the same today with a small incense cone, though these cottages are nowadays more often treated as cabinet pieces. 4.75" by 5.25".
Item # 59 
http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/obanantiques
Origin: France   Shape: Egg   Material: Porcelain
Period: 18th   Location: J. Clayton Spears and Co., Atlanta
Description: French Louis XV ormolu mounted Chinese powder-blue brule parfum, the baluster-shaped body and domed cover with fruiting finial flanked by scrolling foliate branch handles, the circular spreading base with ivy and beading, porcelain early 18th C. (restored), mounts C.1760; measuring 10" high (25.5cm)
Item # 60 
http://www.jclaytonspearsco.com
Origin: France   Shape: Pot   Material: Bronze
Location: Skybridge Studios, Marion, IN
Description: Art Deco Incense Burner : 3"x3" square 4-1/2" footed incense burner. Lid is hinged, and has lightly-to-moderately seen it’s intended use. Floral detail.
Item # 61 
http://www.rubylane.com/ni/shops/skybridgebooks
Origin: Europe   Shape: Pot   Material: Brass
Period: 19 th   Location: GoAntiques
Description: Art Nouveau Brass Incense Burner 5" tall x 3 5/8" diameter.
Item # 62 
http://www.antiqnet.com
Origin: France   Shape: Cassolette   Material: Bronze
Period: 18 th   Location: Chateau de Chamerolles, Loiret, France   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Marble and bronze incense burner 25cm tall. Two pieces are shown in the museum. Part of an exhibition dedicated to the parfume history
Item # 63   
Origin: Greece   Shape: Thymiaterion : Human   Material: Bronze
Period: 460-450 B.C.   Location: Archaeological Museum of Delphi
Description: Bronze incense-burner. A vessel in the shape of a young woman wearing a peplos ("peplophoros"). In her upraised hands she holds a hemispherical cauldron in which the incense was placed.
Item # 185 
http://www.culture.gr
Origin: Roman Empire   Shape: Animal : Panther   Material: Bronze
Period: 2nd/3rd Century A.D   Location: Sotheby
Description: This is a bronze incense burner, eastern Roman or Partian Empire, circa 2nd/3rd Century A.D., which is 11 1/4 inches long and has a lid surmounted by an opening in the form of a larger panther head in front of a diminutive winged Nike holding a wreath and a globe. The burner also has an eagle with folded wings standing atop a ram head at each front corner and the handle terminates in a small panther head.
Item # 186 
http://www.thecityreview.com
Origin: Europe   Incense: Oil   Shape: Human : Human   Material: Porcelain
Period: 1930   Location: Somewhere In Time Antiques
Description: This Art Deco incense burner in the form of an Egyptian woman. Height: 6.5 inches
Item # 211 
http://www.kaleden.com
Origin: France   Shape: Jug   Material: Sandstone
Period: 19 th   
Description: The painter Jules-Claude Ziegler (1804-1856), undertakes to awake in Voisinlieu the industry of sandstone, deadened since XVI th century. "Its sandstones penetrated in the most sumptuous houses" notices in 1844 the jury which grants a silver medal to him at the "Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie". The half-dome of the Paris Church Église de la Madeleine was decorated (1835-1837) with a fresco by Jules-Claude Ziegler.
Item # 246 
http://ogabathuler.free.fr/Francais/Histoire/gres.html
Origin: Germany   Incense: Cone   Shape: Vegetal : Avocado   Material: Ceramic
Location: Private ()
Description: It looks like an avocado in size shape and texture -ceramic-dark green. It sits on it's side and has an opening at one end with smaller openings above it. Markings are "931 W. Germany". There are three little feet on the bottom. Size is 4-5 inches long and maybe a pound for weight.
Item # 250   
Origin: Germany   Shape: Cassolette   Material: Porcelain
Period: 18th   Location: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Burner made in Germany (Meissen). Polychromic porcelain. Height: 20 cm.
Item # 271 
http://www.musenor.com/gm/gmlillea.htm
Origin: France   Shape: Bowl   Material: Copper
Period: 14th   Location: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Gold engraved copper. Height : 15 cm
Item # 272 
http://www.musenor.com/gm/gmlillea.htm
Origin: France   Shape: Sphere : Human   Material: Brass
Period: 1160   Location: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Made in France (Meuse region). Height: 15 cm. Gold plated brass.
Item # 273 
http://www.musenor.com/Les-Musees/Lille-Palais-des-Beaux-Arts
Origin: Greece   Shape: Censer   Material: Silver
Period: 19 th   Location: Arkadi Monastery, Crete, Greece   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Censer displayed in the Arkadi Monastery museum, Crete, Greece.
30 cm high.
Item # 289   
Origin: Greece   Shape: Censer   Material: Silver
Period: 19 th   Location: Arkadi Monastery, Crete, Greece   (photo by: JJD)
Description: Censer displayed in the Arkadi Monastery museum, Crete, Greece.
30 cm high.
Item # 290   
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