Brass religious object???

Found this today thrifting. It is all brass with griffins on the base. I have no idea what it is. Looks very old. Maybe a religious object??? Any ideas?

 

Welcome, Daniel! Looks like something to do with smoking. The part with the 2 flat upright pieces is a matchbox holder.

 

I agree smoking stand,and some people did indeed use this as a religious item. They smoked religiously!

 

Explains why only the bowl shaped receptacle is removable, so ashes can be dumped. Supported by fire breathing dragons, what could be more appropriate?

 

One spot for ciggies, one for cigars, and a slot for a match box with an ash tray. Yep. I wouldn't know what to do with it either except stuff it with jewelry findings.

 

Welcome to the forum, Daniel.
What the others said (including the jewellery findings), and late 19th-early 20th century.

Talking of religious smokers, does anyone remember those figurines of monks with cigars or cigarettes which could smoke? I think they were German.

 

Can't say I do AJ!

 

Maybe the Germans only sold them to us.
My dad also used to have a ceramic ashtray with a smoking Churchill. I think you put your cigarette in a hole at the back of the figurine, and the smoke came out through a tiny hole in the ceramic cigar.

 

I think the bowl is not an ashtray but for mixing different pipe-tobbacoes

 

Now that I DO remember. (Churchill) Also, there was a little house, where the chimney smoked...

 

I believe some months ago there was a thread about 3 "goblets" and what appeared to be a cutting blade fixture, it was also a tobacco blending piece.

 

Cigarettes, cigars, matches, ashtray all in one.

 

Daniel, can you show a photo of the bottom please? Are there any marks on it?

 

There are no makers mark. Here is the pic of the bottom. Thanks

 

There are no makers mark. Here is the pic of the bottom. Thanks

 

Hi Daniel and welcome. I agree with the others. Smoking equipment.

 

My family were smokers and I have several very decorative whatsits like this with the same configuration. There may have been a small glass bowl to sit in the center well.