Two-Handled Covered Cup and Saucer (Gobelet ‘à lait’ et soucoupe)

1757

17.9 cm 12.8 cm

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This covered, bucket-shaped cup and saucer would primarily be used to serve hot and cold milk drinks that were prescribed to remedy fever, melancholy, and the effects of drinking too much alcohol. Warmed bread could be served in the deep saucer or, if the beverage was too warm...

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E. M. Hodgkins Collection, Paris, no. 13; acquired by A. Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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