Candelabra Incense Burner Zhou Dynasty

A photo of myself taken with the Candelabra Incense Burner from the late Zhou Dynasty period. Used by the Royal Imperial concubine court-room. This is a very rare piece which is not even recorded in the Shanghai Museum Aritifacts Pieces of Collection series. I love this piece at first sight. And took me some months to paid of the installment. This piece was also one of my earliest collection. Because I like Ancient China Incense Burner.

The height is about 72cm. Diameter about: 30cm
Three pieces joint.
1) Cover
2) Burner pot
3) Base stand.
Weight : Around 5Kgs!




Close up of incense cover with various design.

Close up of the incense cover with various design.

Close up of the incense cover.

The incense cover taken from various angle. with different design.

Close up of the cover from different angle.

This is the three pieces joint between the stand base + Incense pot+ Incense cover.

Total height is about 72cm.

This is the joint pieces between the incense pot and the stand. Now the height is about 40cm.

This is the Incense Pot which put the incense ingredents.
The pot has a diameter about 36cm.Height about 10cm.

This is the base stand piece.The base diameter is 22cm. The man height is about 30cm.

Design of the support stand is a design of man with two hands carrying the base of the incense pot.

The clothing worn during the Zhou Dynasty. Design pattern of clothing still very fine and visible.

The stand base is a design of ancient tiger inter-locking to one another. Very fine condition.

18 Different MEDIUM SIZE SABRE

At this moment, I have 18 different types. There may be still some different Sabre yet to discover and yet to be unearthed.My collection is still in-complete. Coin books has to be updated again, because of newer Sabre/knives discovery. Not all museum displayed have 100% of different Sabre/Knives collection. It is immpossible to collect 100% if these was founded by the local people in China. Some numismatist rejected its authentic because it was not a museum pieces. Some claimed it was fake. But for me as a researcher and collector, who cares......I am only interested in collecting something that I found it worthy and unique.
This is the shortest Sabre among the rest. Coined from JIN-State during the Zhou Dynasty-Warring States Period. Theses coins are not fully listed in the earlier ancient coin book.
Here below: I have three different sabre coin.......
(1)This Sabre belong to which state of the Zhou Dynasty- Warring States Period -JIN States. Inscription is not common words found in the bone oracles inscription. However, it was coined during the Zhou Dynasty- during the Warring States -JIN State. The inscription: Still need to further research.

(2) This is another short Sabre from JIN state of Zhou Dynasty-Warring States Period. The first inscription in which the word " Dao" (Sabre/Knife) was written as compare to the Wang Mang inscription of the same word "Dao" was written in another form of "Dao" inscription.

The other inscription still need further research.

(3) This Sabre is one of the rare collection. The inscription is not known. I need to search the Bone Oracle dictionary to track the words. It is from JIN state of Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States Period.

This is the Short pointer Sabre with the inscription " GUAN" which mean : GATE. This Sabre price cost higher because of its uniqueness.

This long sharp pointer Sabre has an inscription written "Du" which mean : Capital/ City

This long sharp pointer Sabre inscription has the same word as the Wang Mang Sabre 5000 Huobu gold-inlaid inscription. The word is: "Dao" meaning KNIFE. This is a rare inscription. Wang Mang Sabre also used the same inscription" Dao" from Zhou Dynasty -Warring States Period although it has passed two dynasties already.

This Sabre inscription has the word : " Shang" meaning : Superior

This is the long Sharp pointer Sabre with the inscription word " GUAN". This " Guan" Sabre price higher than others because of its uniqueness.

This is a very unique ans special Sabre among all. This is a left handed sabre. Most sabre were right handed.

This is one of the series Sabre from Yan & Qi-States of Zhou Dynasty during the Warring States Period.

This flat Sabre has an inscription of " Yue" mean: Moon.

This is the common Sabre with two inscription " Ri" ( SUN/ Day) and "Dao" Meaning : Sabre/Knife.

This is another common Sabre with the inscription " GANG" "DANG"

This is one of the Sabre series from the State of QI- from Zhou Dynasty.

Oil Lamp from Israel & Jordan

CERAMIC INCENSE BURNER from Northern Song Dynasty

4 Small size SABRE

This Sabre has just one inscription bearing the name" GUAN" It could be the name of the duke who coined this Sabre. It also could be the name of a city named " Guan" during the western Han period under the reign of Liu Bang. There are two versions for this series. Short pointer and Sharp pointer.

This is another special Short flat Sabre money from JIN state of Zhou dynasty.

I have accidentally broke one of this coin. It is very thin and delicate Sabre money.

Instead of throw away, I decide to use for three testing methods.

1) Test the material composition.

Result: Pure bronze. But very think layer and fragile. Must handle with care. Do not bent the Sabre. Do not wash to destroy the proof of authentic.

2) Check on the bronze material. I use a 10X magnify glass to look deep inside the material.

3) Check on the design and mold appearances.

CLOSE LOOK at 8 DIFFERENT BIG SABRE

I notice the photo color of these Big Sabre is not exact color to the actual item. Because of the light exposure cause the color of the Sabre looks brighter.

9 BIG SABRE Series from Qi State of Zhou Dynasty

Here are 11 pcs of the Big Sabre series money from Qi State of Zhou Dynasty.
It is not a full complete set........There are still some I did not managed to collect because it depend on the unearthed out from China soil. The more new construction sites for new building, the better the chances of getting more new series not rcorded on the ancient coins collection books.
These are exact to size according to the carbon copies of these coins recorded from ancient book.
I do have some collection not recorded in the book.If you take a look at the inscription on the left, it has different inscription. Indicate the Big Sabre was coined from another rich duke from the Qi state under the Zhou dynasty.
Note: Which mean you may have same series but issued by different rich duke.