Identification help please with porcelain lidded pot

I would really appreciate any leads you could give me in identifying this antique porcelain lidded pot with handle. It appears that at some point, there was gold embellishment on some of the flowers but most of that seems to have worn off now. The only mark on the bottom is the number 2552. I was sure that I had seen this pattern before but can not seem to find anything about it online. It measures about 11 cm in height to the top of the pot. Handle and lid are brass. I suspect that it is either Dutch or German. Also, any idea what it would have been used for?
Thanks very much for your ideas.

 

I would guess a biscuit barrel or tobacco jar.

 

Usually when I see this color palette with the peonies and the gold numbers on the bottom I think of Japan......

 

Nah, even though imari palette, English, biscuit barrel some Staffordshire potter or other early 20thc

 

I think you are right - a tobacco jar makes sense to me.

 

Thanks for your input. Given our family history, it is entirely possible that it could be from Japan.

 

To me it looks like a biscuit barrel from one of the staffordshire potteries. All the silver plating is worn off with polishing over the years. It is biscuit barrel size? Not one of the better examples of the time.

 

Biscuit barrel, absolutely typical of them. Tobacco jars had that odd screw in lid fitting to keep them airtight. I agree on originally silver plate, Staffordshire, some time between 1880s and 1920s and yes, Imari palette. Google on Imari palette biscuit barrel and you'll see lots of them.

2522 may be the piece workers mark.

 

It certainly makes sense that you would want a tobacco jar to be airtight. This is a picture of the back of the lid. Is this the type of screw that you are talking about in the lid fitting of a tobacco pot?

 

The pot is only 11cm tall - perhaps for very small biscuits, or one large one!

 

It might be for little sugar biscuits, or possibly at that size, for sugar cubes.

The screw is simply the fitting for the handle. Tobacco jars have an inner rim with a sort of air loock mechanism. Let me see if I can find an image.

Got it: have a look at this one. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-...NBY-TORTOISESHELL-GLAZE-LID-OLD-/274132808527