White Rabbit Clock Backflow Incense Burner — 8 Inch Wonderland Grandfather Clock

Quick Specs

• Type: Backflow incense cone burner with a working clock
• Size: 8 inches
• Clock: Quartz dial with Arabic numerals and a gold-tone rim
• Figure: White rabbit in a red coat holding a gold pocket watch
• Includes: Starter backflow cones

A White Rabbit Checking His Watch Beside a Mossy Grandfather Clock

The white rabbit leans toward the clock with his watch raised. His fur is cut in fine strokes, his long ears sweep back, and one pale blue eye, rimmed in pink, looks along the watch face. He wears a red coat over a yellow waistcoat, and one foot rests on a red-orange toadstool dotted with white, with a smaller toadstool beside it. Behind him a moss-green clock rises like a tower, its surface textured like moss and leaves. The dial is cream with black Arabic numerals, a red second hand, and a gold-tone rim, with the word Quartz printed above the six. Under the dial a dark window frames a gold pendulum bob on a thin rod. A yellow backflow cone stands behind the rabbit’s ear, in the spot made for it, and the base below is a cracked brown path edged in grass. Two dials share the scene: the big one that tells the hour, and the small gold one the rabbit holds up to his nose. The red of his coat is the brightest color on the piece, which draws the eye straight to the watch.

The White Rabbit opens Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published in 1865. Alice is growing tired of sitting by her sister on the bank when a White Rabbit with pink eyes runs close by her. She hears him muttering to himself that he shall be late, which seems quite natural to Alice at the time. Then he takes a watch out of his waistcoat-pocket, looks at it, and hurries away. Alice has never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, so she runs across the field after him and follows him down a rabbit hole. Wikipedia describes the character as a hurried, waistcoat-clad rabbit who perpetually consults his pocket watch. This sculpture holds that first moment still: the coat, the watch, and the worry about time, with a second clock behind him that makes the hour visible from across the room. One glimpse of a watch pulled from a waistcoat is enough to start the whole story, and the sculpture keeps that glimpse in view.

Practical Ritual Applications

Stand the burner where you check the time anyway: a study desk, a hallway console, or a bookshelf in a room with still air. The clock face makes it useful every day, and a lit cone turns it into an evening piece. Choose a backflow cone, stand it in the burner’s cone spot, and the smoke settles through the scene while you read, write, or sort through a stack of cards. Backflow cones come in many scents, and my backflow cone collection has them. As a gift it suits readers of Lewis Carroll, collectors of Wonderland pieces, and anyone who likes a clock with a story. Between cones it stays on display as a painted sculpture and a working clock.

How to Burn a Backflow Cone in Your White Rabbit Clock Burner

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I stock this burner for the story it tells. The rabbit and his watch come from the first pages of Carroll’s book, and the clock gives his worry a second dial to read. Backflow smoke adds quiet theater, and the burner needs only a cone and a still room, so it suits anyone trying backflow incense for the first time. The starter cones let you light it the day it arrives. For more pieces to set beside it, my home decor collection carries shelf-ready sculptures.

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