Antique Tibetan Gilded Heavy Bronze Incense Burner Skull KAPALA Old Nepal. Lovely old Tibetan bronze incense burner. Not a reproduction and was used as an incense burner. In the shape of a human skull or KAPALA. A Kapala in Sanskrit is a sacred sculpted cup made from the top of a human skull offered by Hindu and Buddhist worshippers to their deities.You can actually turn the burner upside down and it still resembles a skull. Gorgeous gilded bronze with wonderful detail. Lots of charact...ers and decoration all around burner. It rests on three small skull feet. Very heavy. It measures 5” tall by 3 1/4” front to back. This was used as it has old remnants of incense. Very special. This came from the estate of a longtime collector.