After looking at this again...
I do not think this is an ashtray but some kind of specialty device...
I think "juice" or liquid is involved...
The tray is designed to allow "flow" it appears down to lower part...
I think the "bar" thingy is like a toothpick to hold something over the tray...
Could be a incense burner of Dhoop insence or something of the likes...
That type of inscence is like tar... resin. ?
Who knows. ?
But ashtray just does not jive ... ashes in tray would just fall out...
Most travel ashtrays seal shut like this.
Any way to get pic with size reference like a quarter...
And pic of back ?