Chinese Long Bamboo Incense Tube with Bone Trim

Slim stick patterned with dark freckles and capped in pale tips.

This long bamboo incense tube with bone trim is from China. Incense tubes are used in China to hold sticks of incense, and bamboo is a favored material because it is light, straight, hollow and easy to work. Long, thin cylindrical case in warm brown wood, speckled with darker round marks along its length. Small pale rings cap the top and bottom ends. The surface is smooth and slightly glossy. It is 9.5 inches long and 0.7 in diameter.

Slim, spotted, and strikingly straight.