This is either easy or impossible, I’m not sure which, though it might be somewhere in-between. #WhatsItWednesday

@cliffordbeshers Is it the underside of the motor of a ceiling fan?

@odd No. I will have to look with different eyes to see how you might have guessed that.

@cliffordbeshers I'm hoping it's a chocolate candy mold.

@cliffordbeshers Is it glass, or metal?

@cliffordbeshers I’m guessing either tin ceiling or cake pan?

@odd Yes?

@sgtstretch Neither, but it shares a property with both.

@annahavron Molded, yes. Candy, no.

@odd It is the underside of an object.

@cliffordbeshers Now I see it: It’s a glass and metal plafond overhead lamp, probably in a corridor.

@od Glass yes, metal no. Not a lamp.

@cliffordbeshers Is it as easy as «a glass bowl»?

@odd I should add, same as with a glass bowl, that knowing you are looking at the underside might not be helpful.

@cliffordbeshers hmmmm. My second guess would be a Christmas ornament.

@annahavron Not necessarily wrong, but not really right. Definitely a partial hit.

@cliffordbeshers A decanter!

@cliffordbeshers a molded glass Festivus ornament!

@odd No, but stay in the general class of “glass, both useful and ornamental, but often not actually used.”

@annahavron Wouldn’t it have to be aluminum/aluminium? 😅

@annahavron More wintry, less Christmas-y.

@annahavron And heavier.

@cliffordbeshers @odd .... this is why I struggle. "glass, both useful and ornamental, but often not actually used" could describe far too many objects in my house...

@cliffordbeshers Does it involve eggnog or desserts?

@odd Nope. Essentislly convex, will not hold anything within.

@odd I'm assuming that holiday decorations for Festivus have expanded like holiday decorations for everything else...

@cliffordbeshers I’m betting you $10 that I don’t own this, or have it in my apartment!

@cliffordbeshers is it made of mercury glass?

@annahavron i did say it might be impossible. I will say this object is manufactured, not unique, but it is intended to be unusual and eye catching, so it won’t pattern match easily.

@odd @cliffordbeshers I'm betting if I really tackle that back closet like I keep saying I will, I'm going to find five inherited from my mother-in-law.

@odd No bet, but you might well have something you would call by the same name.

@annahavron That might be factual. St. Nicholas sells Coke now, so it will not surprise me.

@annahavron i don’t know what mercury glass is. I suspect the manufacturer would call it crystal, but a glass specialist would not.

@odd I am certain its function and the name of such objects will be familiar to you.

@cliffordbeshers If you only had said we see the top of it, it might be a paperweight…

@annahavron Inlooked up mercury glass, and no, nothing that wonderful. I suspect you are being fooled by the colors of the object this glass is resting on.

@odd ding ding ding

@cliffordbeshers ...the foot of a punch bowl?

@cliffordbeshers what a relief! I was just going to say I'll have to leave this one to @odd, who came through again.

@odd you have a knack for this!

@annahavron Thanks! But it was something I didn’t think it was, but only mentioned. 😅

@cliffordbeshers I got to this too late, but I don't think I'd have gotten it. These are great fun — better in my opinion than Andrew Sullivan's View from Your Window.