Your thin glass vessel could be a urinal. There are some good genre
paintings of doctors examining urine specimens. If I recall correctly,
there are "specimens" (pardon the pun) at Plimoth Plantation, from the
early seventies.
There were lamp chimnies before there was kerosene, too, you know.
Then of course there is always a glass harmonica.
Regards,
Ned Heite
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Camden, Delaware 19934 USA
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