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The pictured item seems to be approx. 8 3/4 inches high.
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The brown glazed pottery crock is an antique chicken waterer. The pictured item seems to be approx. 8-3/4 inches high. Thank you for participating!
I also think it’s a stove or burner, with a hole to insert fuel, vents for draft, and an opening with vents at the top, where you would place a pot or a piece of food on a spit to cook.
It’s a Potpourri holder/burner. Put a small dish with potpourri wax in it on top, and a small tea lite candle below. As the top container heats up, it sends wonderful potpourri scents wafting through the room.
or It’s part of an old school “Bash the Bear” game. (It’s missing some parts.). You set this down over the small spring-loaded bear and poke it with a stick through the bottom front hole and then bash it with a mallet when it pops up !
In the laboratory I have seen something similar. You would place a Bunsen burner or a alcohol lamp in the middle of it and it would direct the flame and heat to flask or whatever was put on top of it. Keeps a low flame from blowing out.
It’s used to hold the shape of a boot
I think its column that fits over a night-light candle to burn camphor sticks
It looks like it’s ceramic and could possibly be a type of incense burner.
I can’t tell what material this is? If it’s a glazed Terra cotta, it might be a chimney or water pipe?
Let me clarify: it’s a clay stove. A small fire would be placed/built underneath, and a pot would be placed on top.
It’s a rocket stove!
Fountain collar
Pie Bird
a bronze mortar