Title
Censer with stand
Year/Period
1950s or later
Region
China
Material
Dimension
Object size: H10.7 x W17 x D12.6 cm
Accession No.
2005-00049
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.
