Topic: Simple Vase / Scientific Glassware?

[Stuvio]

I found this little glass piece. It has no molding seams and it is very light. It feels a bit like plastic, yet remains cold (and I think this means it is glass?).


I tried cleaning it, but it is very hard to get water into (and it is also very hard to get it out again).
There are three indentations which makes it easier to handle. I think it is blown glassware, but the bottom is very crisp also, so maybe it isn't blown. The neck is unevenly finished.

To be honest, I have absolutely no idea what this is, how old it is and what it was used for.
Do you have any guesses?

More pictures are possible.

[chopin-liszt]

Hi and welcome to the gmb! 

No use for that in a lab, I'm afraid - it's something for the table, I think.

[Ivo]

I think it is a variant of the watering bowl. Hold it in a bucket until it is full, then turn over and plunge into the soil. Then go on holiday.
I think this is lampworked thermax glass - you oftennsee little candle holders of a similar design.

[Stuvio]

First of all: many Thanks for the welcome. It is an interesting place, one can see that immediately.

Tableware is possible, but I can't see what it would be used as. Maybe a syrup holder?

Then the watering bowl is a valid possibility. It would've come with some kind of holder then? Filled with water, this would probably fall over on its own, I would think. And Thermax Glass means it probably isn't older than 20  years?

Thanks for answering!

[Ivo]

It is definitely not very old; of course borosilicate glass has been with us since the 20s, I don't know when its availability in rods for lampwork came about. All lab glass is made this way.

Syrup holder is off, as you cannot get the stuff in our out.

Nothing needed for a watering bowl. Just turn it upside down and ram it in. It will not fall over.

[Stuvio]

Òk, thanks!