Breast Bowl / Teton Bowl In Porcelain & Biscuit De Sevres, Marie Antoinette 18th Century, Box

Antique breast bowl or "nipple bowl" known as that of Queen Marie-Antoinette.
Sevres porcelain with gilded threads, resting on a biscuit tripod base decorated with goats' heads and gilded threads.
Hollow marks and circular red stamp of the manufacturer.
H.: 12 cm; Diam.: 13.5 cm.
Presented in its original case.
Very good condition

Note: Reissue of the model by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger and Louis-Simon Boizot from 1787 delivered for the Queen's Dairy at the Château de Rambouillet. During the years 1785 and 1787, King Louis XVI had a dairy built in the park of the Château de Rambouillet, formerly the home of the Duke of Penthièvre; where Queen Marie-Antoinette "could come and refresh herself with fresh dairy products", as she did in her hamlet of Trianon. In order to consume these dairy products, the sovereign ordered a service from the Royal Manufacture of Sèvres. Made by Louis Simon Boizot (1743-1809), head of the sculpture workshop and the painter Jean-Jacques Lagrenée the Younger (1739-1821), the service was initially to have 108 pieces, but only 65 were delivered in 1787 and then in 1788. The aesthetic of the bowl for drinking milk in the shape of a breast, would have been, according to legend, obtained thanks to an imprint made on the queen's own breast. However, as early as Greco-Roman Antiquity, the format of these cups was already customary and was called "Mastos", used during banquets, symposions.