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Origin: Japan Shape: UrnMaterial: Bronze
Period: 19th Location: TinnyFisher’s Antiques, Mountain View, HI
Description: A 19th century bronze center piece or type of incense burner. Made up of three individual pieces, and covered with birds, flowers and other images, it is done in a classic incense burner style with added ornatmentation. It stands 10 3/4” high, 6 1/2” at the widest. The base is a wide ring with figures between the OG curved legs of the ornate stand attached to the base. The legs have lotus leaves embossed on the knees. The base holds a lotus blossom cup, inside of the cup rest the bowl of the burner with dragon handles and embossed arrangment of flowers, vines, braches, leaves and birds.
Location: [outdoor] International Buddhist Society
Description: The Bronze Incense Burner graces the courtyard in front of the Main Gracious Hall. The Burner is an exact duplicate of the original which resides in the Beijing Museum. Cast in red bronze, the burner has three storeys and is 3.5 meters high.
Origin: China Incense: Stick Shape: UrnMaterial: Bronze
Period: 282 AD Location: [outdoor] NingBo Temple
Description: Situated under the Luhua Peak in Taibai Mountains, Asoka Temple is 19 kilometers to the east of Ningbo and is one of the "China Five Buddhist Mountains". It is the only remaining temple in China named after Asoka, the famed Indian Buddhist king. The temple was built in 282 AD and is over 1700 years old.
Description: Large Heavy Antique Japanese Bronze Incense Burner decorated with floral patterns and birds. The four supports at the base resemble elephant trunks. Height: 21 ½ inches. Width: 13 inches. Weight: 20 pounds.
Period: Qing Dynasty Location: [outdoor] Bejing Forbidden City
Description: On the marble terrace of the Hall of Supreme Harmony there are 18 bronze incense burners representing each of the 18 provinces of Imperial China. Sandalwood and Tibetan incense were burned in them on special occasions.
Origin: France Incense: Stick Shape: UrnMaterial: Iron
Period: 1900 Location: [outdoor] Hong Hien pagoda of Frejus (photo by: JJD)
Description: Built in 1917 by vietnamese soldiers coming to France to fight along with french soldiers during World War I, the ancient pagoda was served not only as spiritual refuge for that vietnamese community living far from homeland, but also a place of workship in memory of their comrades killed in the battlefield.
Period: 13th-11th BC Location: Private (Mohammed Jamal Nasir)
Description: This item could be a ‘Zun’, a ritual wine vessel that took the shape of a jar with a widely flared lip, supported on a tall foot ring, found in the Shang dynasty (13th-11th century BC).
This item could have been used as Incense burner.
Origin: India Shape: Urn : Elephant Material: Copper
Location: Private (Renee Leo)
Description: This incense urn seems to have carvings of some type of cone along the bottom row, then goes into elephant heads, then some sort of dog and some type of bird along the top row of carvings. We're thinking it must be from India. It has a wooden base that sort of screws on and a lid that has a hole in the center.
Item # 382
Origin: The Netherlands Shape: Urn : Angel Material: Bronze
Description: A Heavy and Large Bronze Incense Burner Decorated with Angels,18th-19th
Century.
Complete With Glass Incense Holder!!
Diameter:24.5cmx13.5cm widest/Weight:757gramm!
Provenance: The Netherlands.
Item # 388
Origin: China Shape: UrnMaterial: Bronze
Period: Qing Dynasty Location: [outdoor] Bejing Forbidden City
Description: Incense burner in the Imperial Garden from the Bejing Forbidden City
Origin: Japan Incense: Stick Shape: UrnMaterial: Bronze
Location: [outdoor] Todai ji temple in Nara (photo by: Francois Petitet)
Description: Todai ji (Great Eastern Temple) is one of Japan's most famous temples and a landmark of Nara. It was constructed in 752 as the head temple of all provincial Buddhist temples of Japan.
Origin: Japan Incense: Stick Shape: UrnMaterial: Bronze
Location: [outdoor] Kinkaku Ji temple in Kyoto (photo by: Francois Petitet)
Description: Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion Temple) is the informal name of Rokuon-ji (Deer Garden Temple). It was originally built in 1397 to serve as a retirement villa for Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, as part of his estate then known as Kitayama.
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