Chinese Small Plain Bamboo Incense Tube with Screw Top

Slim golden cylinder with a small dark cap, quietly pretending to be a candle.

This small plain bamboo incense tube with screw top is from China. Screw tops on bamboo containers are made by cutting matching threads into the tube and the cap, a careful turning task done by hand or lathe. Long, narrow tube in honey yellow, polished to a soft sheen. A thin dark band circles it near the upper third, and a small domed black cap closes the top. The sides run perfectly straight to a plain base. It is 5 inches long and 0.7 in diameter.

Neat, tubular and unwilling to reveal what it holds.