Featured What is this thing called?

Not even sure where to start on this. Anybody know what this is called?

 

jug...amphora.........weird hand grenade ????

 

It looks like a studio potter's version of a hummingbird feeder, missing the stopper with the little tube. The two loops are so it can be hung either vertically or horizontally.

 

I had that thought also; and maybe if the stopper were painted red, the hummers might come. Otherwise, I doubt they'd be attracted......but maybe studio potters and their customers don't know that.
The floral decoration on it would also fit with a hummingbird feeder, even if the wrong color.

 

I agree, it isn't a color designed to attract hummingbirds, but I've seen them made in all kinds of colors/patterns/glaze combinations.

There is a standard cork available through potters' supply shops, garden shops, and I've even seen them in some craft shops like JoAnns and Michaels. It's a black cork, with a clear tube through the center, and a red plastic tip on the end. Maybe that's all that's needed.

But without the cork and feeding tube, it is pretty useless....

 

Cecelia?

 

Or its just a hanging vase ?

 

My thought also...hanging vase....

 

Hummingbird feeder for sure, and no, they never worked! I had one. Bad idea all around, hummers don't like them, & you can't see if there's any food left or if it's clean.

You know those silly potters...they think everything is better made of clay.

 

LOL---no self respecting hummer would be attracted to it .. no way that color would attract them......yes...potters make lots of things that should not be made !!

 

They make a lot of skeet...

 

Yep! I've got some seconds around right now that make me wish I still shot skeet! (I'm a potter !)

 

Thanks everyone. Would have never guessed a hummingbird feeder. And I totally agree that there's no way this thing is going to attract any birds.

 

The hummingbird feeder realtor can use it to upsell a better facility.

 

haha I actually have a few hummingbird feeders as there are quite a few around the house. If I used this I most certainly would see less than I do now