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  • Calacedrus decurrens (Incense cedar)
  • Measuring heaps of incense.
  • Ptolemaic pharaoh offering incense to Horus, wall relief
  • A woman diviner burning incense. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A Chinese street vendor selling incense powders and sticks. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Dadley after Pu-Qua.
  • A virtuous Athenian woman pouring incense on to a flaming tripod. Engraving by J.J. Flipart after J.M. Vien.
  • A recumbent Chinese man surrounded by women in prayer and other attendants burning incense etc. Painting by a Chinese artist, ca. 1850.
  • A young woman wearing a crown deposists a flower garland on a tomb and burns incense on a stone nearby. Line engraving.
  • God appears radiantly behind a black cloud as Moses swings an incense burner; four people are washing their feet and hands in preparation. Etching.
  • A Lohan (disciple of Buddha), seated on a rock beside an incense-burner (?), holding a tablet. Woodcut in the manner of an ink stone rubbing, China, 18--?.