Old or recent? Please help me identify this porcelain

I'd say older, Chinese of course, IMHO late 19th/early 20thc. You don't give the size but looks like a hot food container (depending on how big!)

 

It is 12 cm tall, 9,5 cm wide

 

How much is that in old money?

 

So it's tiny. Probably not for hot food then.

Also looks like it might be incomplete, is the base section missing?

 

I'm not sure if there should be another piece..

 

You know it might be something used for sauce in a dim sum place (some time back, that is!) The waitress would have sauces stacked on the cart and drop off one of these dishes with your cheung fun maybe?

 

I say there is one or more pieces missing because there are four sections. Four is an extremely unlucky number in Chinese culture as the word for four is a homonym for death ..so VERY unlikely to be a four-piece thingy.

 

Thank you Blooey, that makes sence. Still an interesting object tho