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Pairs of similar, large, crane-form incense
burners can be seen in photographs illustrated
by Wang-go Weng and Yang Boda in The Palace
Museum: Peking, Treasures of the Forbidden
City, New York, 1982; one pair grasping lingzhi-
form candlesticks in their beaks in the Palace
of Heavenly Purity, p. 25, the other pair shown
flanking the throne in the Hall of Great Harmony,
pp. 44-45, where the authors note that the
various cloisonné censers, including the pair of
cranes, "emitted fragrant smoke that spiraled
upward to envelop the Son of Heaven in ethereal
haze."

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