What is this glass object for?
I inherited a bar set. It has a wide variety of glassware, all of which I recognize except this piece
The bottom portion holds a 1/2 cup. There is a small hole connecting the top and bottom. The top section is about 2in in diameter with a 3/4 inch opening between the top and the bottom. It is awkward to pour out of it and impossible to drink out of it. There are 12 of them, along with all the other glassware.
There are no markings on the glassware or the bar itself. The bar only contains liquor glasses (Collins glass, cordial glass, old fashion glass, shot glass) and no wine glasses or beer glasses.
What is its purpose?
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It looks exactly like a vase for growing hyacinths to me.
Edit: This is wrong. As noted in comments, a hyacinth vase has a larger hole. Search for "bubble shot glass" images to see the OP's object. Previous answer continues below...
The bulb sits in the top and roots grown into the water below (you have to let the water touch the bulb until the roots grow).
See this advert on Amazon
I haven't come across one for single servings, but this looks very much like a red wine decanter, used to improve the flavour of a red wine by aerating it.
The top bulb is to pour your freshly opened red wine into. The wine passes through the intentionally narrow neck and flows down the inside of the glass in the lower bulb. This exposes as much surface area of the wine as possible to air, allowing it to breathe. This improves the flavour and gives the wine a smoother feel in the mouth.
Aeration is usually done by passing the wine through an aerator - a device with two or more openings, allowing the wine to pass through, or which passes bubbles through the wine - or a decanter which uses a large surface area to do the trick. Without one of these devices, a wine drinker will typically swirl the wine in the glass to reproduce the effect at a smaller scale.
The scale of yours, coupled with it belonging to a bar set, implies that it's intended to be used for a single serving/glass at once.
When turned upside down, it should fit fairly neatly into the mouth of the red wine drinking glasses in the rest of the set. This allows a second aeration, offsetting the relatively small bulb, and gives the pourer a chance to show off.
It's a double bubble shot glass designed for a shot (on top) and the chaser of your choice on the bottom. It is just a novelty and fancy way of presenting special drinks.
Here's a video showing how it's used.
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