Topic: Help identifying a vase?

[Anne]

I had wondered about a tealight holder but was thinking it might get too hot and crack the top part... but you could use one of those wee battery operated LED tealights instead!

[chopin-liszt]

 
I'm intrigued myself.
But all I have managed to come up with is the stupid notion that it could be for pet hair rather than human.

Pets produce a lot more stray fluff than folk do. I've got big pots stuffed full of cat hair from brushing and combing them.

[Ivo]

Excuse me while i woof my cookies.

[Torysa]

Could this be for ball of wool when knitting a scarf for your sweatheart ?  . Glass string ball holder ?

[Anne]

Now that's an interesting suggestion Torysa. I have never seen one in glass but there is no reason why it's not a possibility, either for yarn or for string, which was used far more often in past decades than we do now in the sticky tape era.