Why, it's a teapot, darling! The reason I'm showing it to you here, on thinking woman's site Dollymix, is because it reminds me of Man Ray's "Cadeau Audace", the 'feminist' surrealist sculpture which is essentially an iron with some spikes glued to it. Teapots tend to be curvaceous and voluptuous, but this spiky space-age ball changes the rules somehow.
As it says on the site: "By appearing functionless but being functional, by seeming aggressive while being delicate, the spiky teapot questions what a teapot can be."
You might think the feminist angle on this isn't obvious. But I've thought it through, and what else is a teapot if not a big maternal vessel of rounded womanliness? Like Man Ray's iron, this is an object we might think of as female - but changed, given armour. And like the spiky iron, it's made by a man - Alex Metcalf. He's the guy who made those cones for listening to trees.
Have a look at his website, it's ace.