HELP! Can you identify this object?

Can anyone here please help me ID this? There are no marks on it what so ever besides the decorations. There is also a wooden rod that seem to go through it but doesnt move or come out. The "legs" seem to be missing a base but really unsure.
Any help would be appreciated!!!

 

How big is it? Not that I know what it is but it is an essential element in an attempt to identify it.

 

OH...............6" - 8" long, maybe 2" -3" round.

 

If you rolled it round the pasty crust for a pie, it would leave a fancy pattern on the crust. You'd hold it by the wooden handles.

 

I could totally buy that if it werent cone shaped, or if it didnt have the "feet" on it. I think that it is in fact for making a pattern of some sort though...
Appreciate the replies by the way!

 

Can't help but feel that if it was for making a pattern, it wouldn't have the "feet" attached. Any chance that it is some form of decorative handle?

 

any holes in the base of the feet?

 

Would it work to roll/mark pastry which would ultimately be used in a (confectionary/dessert) product in a cone/funnel shape?????

 

That looks like a spindle off a piece of furniture.

 

I should have left out the word "roll" above.

It should have read: "to mark pastry which would ultimately . . . ." meaning merely pressed into already "rolled" pastry to leave the intricate imprint.

 

I'm seeing a handle

 

The way the "feet" are proportioned to keep the item visually straight when mounted vertically, I too see a handle - missing a finial and bottom drop

 

Would help to have at least one more pic with "feet" toward camera. Looks like maker has put matchmark code of 3 dots on left foot so this piece will go on correct side of or position on final product. Might have been four identical pieces if we are seeing a matchmark "3." Looks like piece was turned a bit oversize then pressed in hot mold to get the "carving." "Feet" must be male dovetail fittings; most of that will be hidden on assembly and matchmarks wouldn't show.

 

I could picture this as something attached to a wall vertically, either as a handle, or for decorative purposes.

But I can also possibly see it as a printing block for printing a pie-shaped design... maybe a quarter circle. If that were the case, there would have been another piece spanning the two "legs," creating a handle.

 

Came from piece of furniture I have no doubt.

 

I'll try and get another pic of it. I can't imagine a piece of furniture though....where would it have possibly went.?

 

Maybe a 4-legged table with splayed legs. The 4 pieces like you have would be parts of each leg at the point where a horizontal member attached using the pair of dovetails. But I'm no furniture expert, I'm just making educated guesses.

 

Might be something like it in one of these pieces of furn-I didn't have time to look thru all. https://www.google.com/search?q=gro...&q=antique+table+spindle&imgrc=CUIYUppsJ6Wt2M:

or maybe here: https://www.google.com/search?q=ant...ChMI0IfXqcvXxwIVyRY-Ch0nQw4V&biw=1434&bih=698