Thanks for your insight Koen Gh.
I get the cornucopia idea, but as you note, these tend to be curved.
I also get what you're saying about the fact that that many elements in the Voynich appear to be two things at once. This may be the case... or it could be that the objects are the spitting image of something we haven't thought of yet.
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The traveler's horologium, as she shows it, is cylindrical, and has no handle, but it's a possibility. Here's how the horologium is represented in an early 14thC manuscript (leftmost image): That one seems slightly better as it has a handle on the bottom, allowing it to be held like the Thing.
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British Library MS Burney 275, f.390v
Also, I have no idea what the tan colored object on the table in the image below is, but it does have a somewhat similar shape, and appears in the context of bathing:
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British Library, Add. 17987, folio 111v