Chinese Long Natural Bamboo Incense Tube

Knuckled like a bamboo cane, and about as pale as one.

This long natural bamboo incense tube is from China. An incense tube in plain natural bamboo reflects a simple scholar's taste, in which the beauty of the material itself is valued over added ornament. Slender cylindrical piece in pale cream with raised ridges at regular intervals along its length, like a segmented stalk. The surface is smooth with a few darker flecks and a slightly worn, uneven top. It is 9.5 inches long and 0.7 in diameter.

Knobbly, honest, and happily irregular.