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Vietnamese Handcarved Lacquered Incense Holder for Buddhist Altars
[ngu610412]
shipping weight: 4 LB
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I went to Vietnam last year and found this beautiful lacquered altar piece. It
is from the early 20th century and is carved of wood and painted in many layers of lacquer.
The Vietnamese use only red and gold lacquer for their altar pieces. This deep
red lacquer is unique to Vietnam and very easily distinguished to the trained eye
from Chinese, Burmese or Thai lacquer for example. The gold used has an strong
orange tint to it and the red is a deep red which the Vietnamese call "cockroach
color". Here the gold gilt is lacquered on with a fine brush to represent
banners, and a flowering fruit branch.
This altar piece would hold joss sticks, or incense sticks and two of these would
flank the altar on each side of the deity worshipped. The animist, confucious
and buddhist elements all combined and so one would find joss stick holders like
this at the altar of a buddha, a semi-deity (Thien or Thanh), and in Hanoi at the temple
of literature, even to famous Vietnamese scholars.
12" tall and 6" wide, handcarved lacquered wood, Northern Vietnam, early
20th Century.
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$150.00
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