Topic: Today’s mystery object ??

[bat20]

Hi ,shallow bowl with tons of wear and polished pontil,I think it’s old and made for everyday use ?.It’s thick and heavy with an opening of 6.5 cm ..something to do with ink ,whale oil ?..any thoughts thanks .

[bat20]

Salt ?

[glassobsessed]

The Holmegaard version is described as an ashtray, they made them in smoke and pale blue at least:
https://www.hardernet.dk/Image_DGM/Foto_GLAS/Smoke-Askebaeger-H7-D18,5-V2436-HGPL1962-Per_Lutken_1962.JPG

John

[bat20]

Completely different animal I think John ,it has all the hall marks of a pre 1850’s piece of glass,colour , inclusions ,air bubbles and a lot of tooling marks on the outside .

[NevB]

It looks Scandi to me too, and with the amount of wear it has, possibly been used as an ashtray. The style of polished pontil doesn't look old. 

[Lustrousstone]

It's a simple, low cost salt IMO

[bat20]

It’s old ,I’m way off being an expert …but it’s old .So tricky to get a feel across in images !,but it’s a greyish colour  with white seed like inclusions and other larger white bits , big and small air bubbles with grooves on the outside when it was shaped ..I was thinking low cost salt and also possibly it had some sort of metal top for a whale oil lamp,hence it’s weight ??

[bat20]

Sorry about the gardening hands !!..this is as close as I can get to the feel of it I’m afraid .

[glassobsessed]

Would a salt be that big?

[bat20]

Would be on the large side I think ,the rim also narrows and over hangs the shallow bowl ??almost for the purpose of stopping spillage ,it’s also very thick in the base and I would guess not for stylistic reasons but for practical ones ?