This tea pot was nice looking; the interesting part was that it was a solid piece: the lid did not detach.
The seller at the sale told me it was from Peru but had been a gift and she had used it for decoration.
The bottom looked like this. Reminded me of these salt cellars.
Bought it; brought it home; decided it could not be for tea; reminded me of how, in India, we kept water in terra cotta vessels which evaporated slowly through the porous material and kept the water cool.
Poured water into the hole in bottom imagining it must be funnel shaped and would keep the water in the vessel when turned upright again. It did!
It is now sitting on the counter and I will check the temperature of the water after awhile. The vessel has been glazed so maybe it is not meant as a cooler. It can't be cleaned other than rinsing so I don't think it is meant for something like milk or syrup. ???
A lot of interesting meat grinders have shown up at the Friday church sale recently and I assumed someone had gotten rid of their collection – and thought what an interesting thing to collect and to wonder how they displayed them.
This showed up on Friday, maybe part of that collection.
Did not think until just now to place an object beside it to show the size. Imagine a penny sitting on the cutting board to which it is attached. It is the smallest meat grinder I have ever seen. One of the lady sellers thought it might be meant for spices. ????
I did have another must-have meat grinder in the past: check it out here.