Altar and Buddhist-supply retailers
Two or three censer sizes with matching cranes and candlesticks, plus incense bowls and water cups as the volume items. The set sells the shop; the small pieces pay the rent.
Product lines
What a Vietnamese bronze foundry can put in your container
Six lines, one alloy and one finishing shop. Mixed orders across lines are normal — most first orders are a test assortment rather than a single item.
Six product lines
Line 01
Altar bronzeware
The Vietnamese ngu su five-piece set: censer, a pair of cranes on tortoises, a pair of candlesticks — plus incense bowls, water cups and offering trays.
- Censers 40–70 cm; sets matched by scale, not only by name
- Cranes stand 5–7 cm taller than the censer, candlesticks 12–15 cm shorter
- Buyers: diaspora altar shops, temple suppliers, Buddhist supply wholesalers
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Line 02
Statues & figures
Cast figures and busts, from tabletop pieces to commissioned portrait work, finished in antique patina or polished bronze.
- Lost-wax for fine modelling, sand casting for volume
- Cast from your 3D file, a maquette, or photographs
- Plinths, fixings and name plates cast to match
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Line 03
Plaques & lettering
Cast bronze plaques, memorial tablets, donor boards, relief panels and raised lettering for buildings and grounds.
- Raised or recessed text, cast rather than engraved
- Weatherable patinas and lacquer for outdoor sites
- Drilled, studded or concealed fixing
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Line 04
Decorative vessels
Vases, bowls, hanging panels and relief pictures for interiors, hotels and gift ranges — what buyers group as Asian bronze décor.
- Cloisonné enamel (phap lam) on selected forms
- Hammered, chased and hand-engraved surfaces
- Nesting sizes designed for efficient cartons
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Line 05
Custom & OEM casting
Your design, our furnace. Tooling stays with your account and a private pattern is never cast for another buyer.
- Drawing or sample in, cast sample out before production
- Your mark cast into the base, your carton and insert
- Repeat orders cast from the retained pattern
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Line 06
Restoration & matching
A broken crane, a missing candlestick, a set bought years ago from another maker: we cast the replacement and match the patina.
- Send dimensions and photographs taken in daylight
- Colour matched against a sample posted to us
- Useful for distributors carrying warranty claims
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Choosing a first assortment
What buyers usually start with
Asian décor importers
Vases, bowls and relief panels in nesting sizes, with one or two statues as anchor pieces. Ask us to plan sizes around your carton so the pallet works out.
Interior contractors and hotels
Plaques, lettering, relief panels and a commissioned feature piece, cast to the architect's drawing with fixings included.
Private-label brands
One product family cast to your design with your mark in the base, your carton and your insert card. Start with a sample, then a first run.
Or browse by where the bronze ends up
Four places our buyers sell into
Family altars at home
Censer sets with cranes and candlesticks, incense bowls and water cups, for shops selling to households. Size decides everything here: a set for a wall shrine is not the set for a hall.
Altar bronzeware · How to read an altar set · Notes for US altar shops
Temples, monasteries and cultural centres
Hall-sized censers, statues and plaques, usually bought once, for a building under construction. The questions are height, weight, freight for a single large piece, and lead time for a one-off set.
Commissioning a temple censer · Statues & figures · Weights and sizes
Hotels, restaurants and interiors
Plaques, lettering, relief panels and a commissioned feature piece, cast to the architect's drawing with fixings included, on a contract programme rather than a stock order.
Gardens and outdoor settings
Cranes, large vessels and standing figures that will live outside. Patina behaves differently in the open, a heavy piece changes how the order is crated, and bronze ages nothing like the cast iron or aluminium most garden wholesalers already stock.
Bronze outdoors: weathering, patina, and how it compares with iron and aluminium · Decorative vessels · Packing for sea freight
Buying to your own design rather than from a catalogue? OEM & tooling answers the pattern-ownership questions first.