Featured Pottery Jar ID help

This 6.5" piece looks nicer than your average studio piece.

It has the one side handle / ring but as you can it's horizontal, so likely for hanging? There's an impressed 6 (or perhaps 9) in the base, otherwise nothing to identify.

Any ideas about what this is will be appreciated!

 

It looks a lot like a bird bottle, meant to hang for nesting birds.

 

Interesting! I would not have thought of that.

 

Cool! I hope a number 9 bird doesn’t try to use it if it’s really a number 6.

 

The loop might have been for a wooden spoon. Honey with a cork stopper. I have bird bottles and they have a triangular hole on the end to hang it on so the open throat faces straight out. The opening looks a little big since most bird bottles are for small birds like wrens. At least the three i have are small openings

 

my thoughts as well.....some condiment , or other..

 

To me it looks like a cera mic Yerba Mate cup

 

That's interesting! My son drinks that. I'll ask him.

 

It's totally different! What's in that stuff you're drinking?

 

I should add a picture of the inside of my ceramic jar. It is unglazed, and looks like the bottom of the jar.

It could hold a liquid like jam or a drink no doubt, but I would think that'd be less-than-ideal.

 

I had a salt crock with a ring loop like this one. The loop held a wooden spoon. Still have it, but the lid was broken. My salt crock was artisan pottery that I picked up at a craft fair. I think the ring loop is for a spoon but I don't know what would have been stored in this crock.

 

In looking again I do think that the inside is solid enough that maybe it could hold a liquid, but I obviously don't know.

Here's a picture that I'm not sure how much helps.....



.....but I sure appreciate all your all's' help.

(ps that's not wear on the inside rim but rather a thinness to the glaze that didn't include the dark red)

 

that beige ring suggests a lid of some sort........imo