Title
Large censer
Year/Period
Contemporary
Region
China
Material
Dimension
Object size: H11.6 x W24 x D18.1 cm
Accession No.
2005-00052
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Rosalind Ong
Such brass censers were used to hold incense sticks on ancestral altars in Chinese homes. A typical ancestral altar would have ancestor tablets which were believed to be a way through which the living may communicate with the deceased ancestors in the after world.
