If you are sure you have a spooner, here is an explanation that is used by eapg sites that may help you.

In those early Victorian days the frugal homemaker did not set
spoons out at each place when setting a table. Indeed, she may not have had
enough spoons to go around! Instead, the spoons were kept in a “spooner”
and placed on the table within reach of those who might need them.
It seems so reasonable a practice, we wonder why it was dropped by most
Americans around the turn of the twentieth century.

Hope that helps some.

I don’t know if what you have is a spooner or not as that is not my area.
Is your piece marked at all with any maker?
Maybe Barn will know.

Perhaps try over at the bay on the discussion boards there to see if they can help if no one here can assit.
Try the antiques board or collectibles board or maybe even the pottery and glassware board.
Good Luck

It depends on what you have. Open container without holders or lid was a spooner (container for holding spoons on the table). If it had a lid or holders around rim a jam or honey pot. My grandmother had both but the glass spooner was always on the kitchen table and the jam pot was for dining.

I agree with vintage. it was a container for holding spoons when nor formally dining. the wood utensil caddies were for forks and knives.

Well that looks like a Jam pot….or Honey pot for breakfast serving to me.

Spooners were normally a fancy decorated Victorian glass table setting piece, to as was stated put spoons in. They sometimes look like a fancy short large opening vase. A lot of them would be considered Early American Pattern Glass. I have a few of them to display my sterling spoons in.

That makes good sense! Now, what I have listed in my booth is something I have also seen listed as a spooner. This one however is sterling and is more of a pot on a pedestal with a lid that has little holders around the rim to hold 12 spoons. So, is this not a spooner? Or just a different sort of one?
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its stamped on the bottom B.G. Uher Silver Co. Quadruple Plate

Well, Looks like canacreations was on the right track! I Just found this
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so, I would have to say that this is a high brow jam pot! Thank you all for you input. If anyone else has more information on this I would really appreciate it!

Oh, just found another listed as a container for Spoon Sweets from Greece.
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Both the French and the Greek examples are sterling, unfortunately mine is only plate!

Pretty sure it is not a spooner. They were open topped, so the spoons could stand in them and be taken out easily.