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A pixiu carved in matte obsidian, hung on an adjustable beaded cord. The pixiu (貔貅) is the wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, a winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to let it out, to keep every...

A clear glass jar, the lid crowned with a small gold stag. The glass is pressed in a diamond pattern that throws light around whatever sits inside. The deer is an old feng shui favourite: its name, lu, sounds like the word for an...

One hundred and eight rosewood beads on a knotted cord. The 108 count is the traditional length of a Buddhist mala, one bead for each turn of the mantra, with a larger guru bead marking where the round begins and ends. Rosewood is the...

A squat ceramic burner in mottled green, a dragon rising from the lid. Lift the lid and the bowl takes a coil or a stick. Set it back and the smoke has only the pierced clouds and the dragon's open mouth to leave by,...

A ceramic Buddha's hand holding a lotus lantern inside a ring of light. A backflow burner runs in reverse. The cone sits in the lotus and its smoke, heavier than air, pours down through the petals and pools on the base like water. The...

Incense wound into a coil, so one lighting lasts about two hours. A coil burns from the outside in and needs no tending, which is why it is the form kept for a long sitting, an afternoon of work, or a room being aired...

Two crescents of peachwood, flat on one face, rounded on the other. Moon blocks, jiaobei, are the oldest yes and no in the Chinese temple. You hold the pair, put the question out loud, and let them fall. One flat face up and one...

Hollow incense cones that send their smoke downward instead of up. A backflow cone is drilled through the centre, so as it burns the smoke is drawn down through the hollow and out of the base, where it pours over the burner beneath like...

A shallow bamboo box with a pierced lid, for burning incense slowly. The lid is cut through so the smoke finds its own way out, and the box holds the burn low and even under it, so a coil lasts the afternoon. Bamboo has...

A three-legged brass censer, black outside, bright within. The shape is the old one, a round belly on three feet with two upright ears, the form Chinese households have burned incense in since the Ming. The black finish stops at the rim, where the...

An incense burner on three tall legs, shaped after a bronze ding. The ding is the oldest ceremonial vessel in China, a three-legged cauldron cast in bronze three thousand years ago for offerings, and the number of ding a household was allowed once told...

A tall tripod ding in dark clay, a qilin sitting on the lid. The qilin is the beast that appears when a good ruler is in power, and walks without bending the grass under it. Kept on an altar or in a hall it...

A three-legged ding in rough stoneware, with a small lion keeping the lid. The ding is the oldest vessel shape in China, the bronze tripod that held offerings at the Shang and Zhou courts, and to ask after the ding, 问鼎, is still the...

A carved wooden stand with three platforms, the centre one raised. Chinese display stands exist because a good object should not sit flat on a table. Lifting a teapot, a stone or a figure onto carved wood sets it apart from everything around it...

The Pixiu (貓貚), wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, cast in titanium steel. A winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to release what it takes in, to keep every bit of fortune it draws toward its wearer....

A round mirror for the Cundi practice, gilt on both faces. Cundi (準提) is the bodhisattva called the mother of seven kotis of buddhas, shown with eighteen arms, each hand holding an implement of the practice. Her mantra has been recited in Chinese Buddhism...

Cundi's mirror, cast in brass at sixteen centimetres across. A brass mirror is the old kind, polished metal rather than silvered glass, and this one is made for the Cundi practice: the lettering runs in Sanskrit around the rim, the bodhisattva's image is on...

A mirror of polished brass, ringed in Sanskrit. The Cundi mirror is an object of practice, not of vanity. Cundi (准提) is the bodhisattva called mother of the buddhas, and her mantra is recited in front of a mirror so the practitioner watches their...

A carved wooden figure on a knotted cord, made to hang from your keys. Peachwood is the wood the Chinese tradition reaches for when something needs guarding. Peach charms hung on doors at New Year long before paper ones did, and a piece carried...

An obsidian octagon, the taiji at its centre and the eight trigrams around it. The bagua is the guarding symbol of feng shui, eight trigrams set around the still point where yin turns into yang. Carved in obsidian it borrows the stone's own reputation,...