In Goryeo, bronze incense burners in the shape of a mounted cup were widely manufactured, along with celadon incense burners. Incense burners of this type have a broad outward-turned rim and a foot that flares like an upside-down tulip. They are most often made by putting together a separately cast bowl and foot. These incense burners were called “hyangwan,” as it is besides written on the surface of this one. The surface is often sumptuously decorated with silver-inlaid Sanskrit characters and designs like honeysuckle and scrolls, lotus and scrolls, dragons amid clouds, phoenixes or willow and water fowls. Initially, the surface design on a mounted cup-style incense burner was simpler and limited to some localized areas, as exemplified by the Incense Burner of Baegwolam Hermitage (1164). Once into the late Goryeo Period, they became more lavishly adorned with decorative motifs, and motifs were present throughout the entire surface including the surface of the foot. The foot was shorter than in earlier eras and had a shape that conveyed a bit of a tubby impression. This style, besides, remained in use, into the Joseon Period. Incense burners, in a typical Goryeo style, are decorated with yeouidu motif-framed circles enclosing Sanskrit characters and lotus petal and scroll designs. In this incense burner, the upper section of its flared-out body is sumptuously adorned with elegant scroll designs. The side of the incense burner is decorated with yeouidu framed circles in which four Sanskrit characters are inlaid with silver wire. The circles enclosing Sanskrit characters are interlaced with lotus and scroll designs placed between them. Like most mounted cup-style Goryeo incense burners, this one is also made by welding together the bowl and the foot that were separately cast, as indicated by the weld seam visible at the bottom of the bowl. The foot is made up of three components; the bowl rest, the foot proper and the base. The bottom of the bowl is decorated with lotus petal motifs, at the level beneath the area with lotus and scroll designs, and the bowl rest has two molding-style ledges with simplified scrolls on the top ledge and cloud motifs on the bottom ledge. The foot, below the bowl rest, flares outward gradually to a broad, round base with one bevel. At the upper level, the foot is divided by long vertical lines into several sections inside which downward-facing lotus petals with stamens are placed. In the area below, the surface is covered with magnificent lotus and scroll designs with sinuous vines. The same scrolls are added to the bevel around the base. Meanwhile, the scroll design along the bottom ledge of the bowl rest area is coupled with yeouidu motifs. All in all, this silver-inlaid incense burner is eminently illustrative of the style of late Goryeo bronze vessels of this type, especially in surface design. Beneath the mouth rim, there is an inscription in dotted characters, providing the names of donors and mentioning Jeongbangsa Temple and Tongdosa as the temple to which the incense burner was originally offered. Meanwhile, the tile “Gaseondaebu” in the inscription suggests that the incense burner was probably housed in Tongdosa sometime during the Joseon Dynasty. Another possibility is that the incense burner was made during the Goryeo Period, but the list of donors was inscribed on it at a later era. If indeed this inscription does not date from the time when the incense burner was cast, the only way to determine its age is comparing it with similar incense burners that are dated. Although rather modest in size, this incense burner is elegant and features a slender and finely-proportioned foot. This, coupled with the beautiful lotus and scroll design and the contrastingly meek Sanskrit character design, suggests that the incense burner was made sometime in the mid-14th century. When compared to an early-Joseon incense burner like the one from Cheonggoksa Temple (1397) – currently in the collection of the National Museum of Korea – this incense burner shows a much stronger degree of Goryeo influence. Only a handful of dated incense burners have survived from the 14th century, including the one with the inscription of “Junheungsa” from 1344 (4th year of Zhizheng) and another from 1357 (the 17th year of Zhizheng). Therefore, contrary to the widely held view that it was made in early-Joseon, the incense burner of Tongdosa Temple appears to have been created in late Goryeo. The incense burner is, otherwise, in an excellent state of preservation.