An Easter dachshund! Witches having tea on Easter; I didn’t expect this one. Above and below, a series by Arthur Thiele (1860-1936)
Archive for the ‘Incense’ Category
Happy Easter via Post, with Incense, Tea, Goats & More
Posted in Art, Easter, Goats, Incense, Mail, Postcards, Tea on April 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Harold & Elizabeth Bibber in Japan
Posted in Art, Bells, Incense, Japan, Postcards, Religion, Tea on March 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I purchased a group of postcards and discovered that the person who bought them first, Elizabeth Bibber, had written notes on the backs, describing each scene. Elizabeth Bibber was the wife of Harold Bibber, a 1920 MIT graduate and an engineer with General Electric; he was assigned to the Tokyo office for four years beginning [...]
Incense Vision
Posted in Incense, Postcards on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Strange Tricks with Incense
Posted in Incense, Literature on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In a jewelled tripod, on a fire of charcoal, burned little blocks of perfume composed of juniper berries, galangal root, black grapes, and sap of Nile rushes soaked in red wine and stiffened to a paste with mastic, myrrh, and the deadly honey of Trebizond. Through the burner’s perforated lid, slender pencils of smoke bore [...]
Incense
Posted in Art, Incense on January 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
You know you’re bored when even incense doesn’t perk you up.
Incense in Paris
Posted in Incense, Postcards on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Incense in Peking
Posted in Incense, Postcards on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Incense, Peking
Posted in Incense, Postcards on October 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Lt. Charles F. Gammon (d. 1926) was a military man and an agent of the American Bible Society in China at the time of the Boxer Rebellion. He took photographs during his time there, many of which were published as postcards.
Incense Pheasant
Posted in Art, Incense, Postal History, Postcards on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Kudos to the Japanese post office for creating a stamp, and postal cachet, for an incense burner in the shape of a pheasant.
Incense, 1916
Posted in Art, Incense, Postcards on July 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In searching for incense images I came across this beauty from Stone Mountain, Georgia: the grand stairway, with incense urn, leading to the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial Hall designed by Gutzon Borglum. He envisioned a hall and museum at the base of the mountain, as well as an amphitheater and a reflecting pond to mirror [...]
