https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/34858/fullFeeding cupearly 1700sOverall: 5.1 × 20.3 × 8.6 cm (2 × 8 × 3 3/8 in.)Tin-glazed earthenware (grand feu faience)The Pierre Karch and Mariel O'Neill-Karch Collection.Manufactured: Rouen, FranceG14.4.201Diderot 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.”).French Faïence14th to 18th Century European Earthenware and Stoneware[]European CeramicsFrench Earthenware - Faïence1822095744French