Antique Chinese Bronze Censer 🐉 — Lidded Incense Burner, Peach & Leaf Lid, Chilong Dragon, Late Qing corporate_seal_design with its Italian iconography and

with its Italian iconography and its warm Mediterranean color palette

about the way the town's fortunes rose and fell with Boeing's order books

framed walls

🏛️ Pair with other American Bank Note Company or security-printing pieces to tell the engraving-house story visually

Antique Chinese Bronze Censer 🐉 — Lidded Incense Burner, Peach & Leaf Lid, Chilong Dragon, Late Qing corporate_seal_design with its Italian iconography andThe Small Fire at the Heart of the Room There was a time, not so very long ago, when a room was made ready not by flipping a switch but by lighting a thread of incense. In a Chinese household of the late nineteenth century the day had its scented hours: a stick lit before the family altar at dawn, a curl of smoke to greet an honoured guest, a slow coil burning down through the long evening. The censer was the little hearth of that ritual the vessel