Featured This time I have no clue about a porcelain piece. What is it?

My first thought was a fancy toothbrush holder. But when I looked at it closely it looked too old for something like that. There are no chips but the gold is very worn. There are no marks.

What could it be?

Excuse the dirt. I just got it tonight and couldn't wait to post it. (I also don't want to waste the time cleaning it if it is a toothbrush holder.)

Thanks!

 

It's 6" tall

 

Toothbrush holder. An antique one.

Debora

 

Flower frog, part of a centerpiece perhaps?

 

Maybe ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=ant...jQxPDV7qaCAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQEg&biw=1600&bih=746

 

Looks to me like a cocktail pick holder I have somewhere, mine was brass filled with tiny swords, made in Toledo.

Linda

 

That's a pretty good possibility.

 

Pretty pipe rack?

 

Looks like a pipe rack to me too.
Toothbrushes were generally kept in long porcelain lidded dishes.

 

Given it's period, I agree to pipe rack. And rather a dainty one.

Debora

 

I think a spoon or utensil holder. But Im often wrong !

 

That was my first thought as a possibility, too. But with the hole in the bottom, I don't think it would stand in a bowl of water well. The type I'm thinking of are generally made of glass, and have more weight to them.

 

my 2 cents......

pipes of the period came in too many varieties , lengths , widths , for a standard hole to accommodate . Not all had straight shafts , and the tip of the mouthpiece was often flared and wider than those holes would allow.....

Whatever this is.....& I like toothbrush holder because of it's dainty fountain appearance ..... it held things of the same size and length !

extra wide holes, below...





.there is this..........but it includes the tobacco jar.....has tobacconia artwork...and is a different critter...

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https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/rare-haviland-porcelain-tobacco-jar-pipestand-1-c-285482f9cb


& who would want to mess that look with smelly pipes ?????

 

Somebody making his wife happy!

 

u present me with that beauty , & I'll be your wife !!!!

 

Be careful what you wish for, komo...

 

I wish for an end to global strife , a lowering of taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 a year , 100,000 new and refurbished lower income housing, 50% increase of Gov't funding to food banks, a ban on increased food prices for the next 3 years, a mandatory additional corporate tax of 10% on gross sales over 100 Million dollars,
& a partridge in a pear tree !!

cuz we all know just how good broiled partridge in a pear coulis is !!!

 

Well, at least one of us doesn't know about that.
I was referring to the part about being a wife for a piece of clay.
Whatever, I guess...

 

I wish for peace in the Middle East, a fully working body free of ailments, and .... not so sure about that wife stuff.

 

well u said be careful.....&... I'm careful .....but hopeful too !!!