Is this an inkwell and is it Meissen?

This was a surprise from a table lot. I have several more items I need info about and will be listing them in separate threads. It was a good auction but when they boxed things up, they weren't careful enough. I lost several good pieces to carelessness.

Anyway, thanks for any help!

 

that may be Meissen.....but if it's an ink well it was never used & I could see it being a holy mess !

 

Interesting... I have no idea what it is, but would like to know, too.

 

Perfume bottle

 

My first thought was perfume bottle but it wouldn't be a tight seal to prevent evaporation of the perfume.

 

Maybe it had cork at one time that long disintegrated . I thought perfume as well.

 

More Meissen perfumes

 

There isn't enough room for a layer of cork. It could have been very thin, I guess.

 

Wonderful! None of my searches came up with anything like that.

Thank you very much!

 

I guess that is where pieces like my Halcyon Days perfume bottle was inspired.

 

Holy cow! $600 2 years ago at the Louvre antique auction and that ne had a chipped base.

https://www.antique-bottles.info/meissen/

 

Very nice! I had thought yours was a goat, from the angle at which I was viewing it. Dog was my second thought.

 

Of course, a perfume bottle shaped like a goat would not be very enticing.

 

My gold mounted Chelsea one of two cavorting dolphins sold back in the nineties for many thousands of pounds, so six bills, while quite a bit, ain't the sky!

 

I thought it might be a goat first too.