Middle East/Islamic/Persian bird statue. This was in a box of several Items. What is it? Value?

Don't know what size it is but would it be the right size to hold a tapered candle?

 

The bird itself is 6.25". The base is about 1 1/8th" high. The whole in the top is as seen in the picture. It is about 1/8th" wide. This came in a box with several other things from (what I was told) a person who was a Turkish import/export person.

 

I wonder if it is simply missing some parts (ie the part that holds the candle; I forget what it is called)? Compare to this pair:
https://www.rubylane.com/item/582414-BB0193/Pair-Antique-Brass-Candleholders-Candlesticks-Storks

 

Compared to the Rubylane link,this looks like a rough/unfinished casting.Maybe an import from India.

 

What is it? Value?

Kitsch. $5.

 

Not sure I see Middle East [Region] / Islamic [Religion] / Persian [Country.] Think it may originally have been part of a European garniture (although not of the same quality or era as example) with bits missing.

Debora

 

Here are two supposedly from France. A little different with better detail.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/268584...h_query=crane candle holder&ref=sr_gallery_39

https://www.etsy.com/listing/469757...ch_query=crane candle holder&ref=sr_gallery_5

Here's another just like the yours:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/476263...h_query=crane candle holder&ref=sr_gallery_23

I'm inclined to think yours is a broken candlestick.
I also think there are too many out there, so maybe not as old as claimed.
Maybe 1970s India import. Just a guess on my part.
All the ones posted have been taken to a polishing wheel and cleaned up. I think yours is in original condition.

 

Thank you. You found it..... This place is remarkable!!

 

Yes that is the opening on the top for a tapered candle.

 

Indian, definitely. Hard to tell the age: made in Colonial times and still being made.