Chinese Long Plain Bamboo Incense Tube with Screw Top

Smooth, pale straw-colored tube capped by a single dark knob.

This long plain bamboo incense tube with a screw top is from China. A threaded top turns a length of bamboo into a closed container, a simple and practical solution found in many bamboo vessels across East Asia. Plain slender cylinder in soft cream-yellow, with a dark rounded cap at the top and a thin dark ring at the base. The surface is even and smooth, with faint translucence. It is 9.5 inches long and 0.7 in diameter.

Plain as a pencil, and with equal poise.