"What Is This Small, Intricately Carved Thing I Found At An Estate Sale, And What Is It Made Of?"

"It is part of a cover for a 19th/20th century Qing Dynasty Chinese gourd cricket cage. Probably ivory, possibly bone. There would have been a carved lattice base as well as a wood collar, all fitted to a gourd container."
What's the point here?
Also, wtf is this thing about censoring? Another idiotic linguistic failure by a generation of illiterates is my guess.