A postcard with an image that incorporates postage stamps, circa 1910. And that might even be a cloud of incense. What a lovely piece of vintage mail art.
Category Archives: Incense
Incense in Belize
Postcard of an incense burner from British Honduras, today’s Belize, from the collection of the Heye Foundation.
Incense Flower
Postcard by Austrian artist Raphael Kirchner (1876-1917)
Happy New Year
Incense in Paris
Postcard of an incense burner from the Musée Cernuschi, an Asian art museum specializing in works from China, Japan and Korea. A note: The word “Email” is French for “enamel.”
HEM Incense
Incense by Kempf
A postcard by Austrian artist Gottlieb Theodore Kempf von Hartenkampf (1871-1964). In its section on postcard artists, the Metropolitan Postcard Club of New York notes, “Kempf attended the Academy in Vienna between 1888 to 1896 supplemented by studies in Rome and Paris. He began his career as an illustrator producing work for the magazine Meggendorfer Blatter, and he was designing postcards by 1899. That same year he showed with the Vienna Secession. He was a member of the Siebener Club, Wiener Kunstlerhaus, and in 1903 he founded an artists group in Fahrafeld. Kempf was also a painter and etcher whose style was influenced by both Art Nouveau and Symbolism.”
HEM Incense
I love the graphics on packages from HEM Incense in Mumbai, which I buy via Incense Warehouse. Long may they both prosper.
Wise Men with Incense
The three Wise Men, two bearing incense, drawn in 1900 by J.C. Leyendecker.
Incense Swinging
