https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/34858/fullFeeding cupearly 1700s[]Tin-glazed earthenware (grand feu faience)Diderot and d’Alembert’s widely read Encyclopédie (1751-1772) provides a detailed description of faience production. One of the plates features a variety of common objects, among which appears a feeding cup similar in shape to the example displayed. The reader is informed of the object’s function as a cup used to feed liquids to the sick (“Un biberon pour la commodité des maladies, fait pour contenir les breuvages qu’on veut leur faire prendre.”).com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@3ebhttps://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/objects/5744/rdf