I’ve always heard that the shape of the champagne glass came from the breast of Marie Antoinette” but in the case its hyperbole. It’s not out of the question that someone at some point a moulded a set of woman’s breasts that were later used to shape a champagne glass. Marie Antoinette, Austrian-born aristocrat married Louis XVI as a teenager in 1770, and she became queen of France scandalizing her French subjects with her lavish excesses and pampered femininity.

Marie-Antoinette’s milk mug became known, bluntly, as a bol-sein, or breast cup. Tinted glazes of flesh and rose, like the heat of Boucher’s brush on Madame de Pompadour’s cheeks, do the work of the imagination to give the breast a warm-blooded glow The drinking vessel reposes on the head of reverential goats molded into a tripod whose accents pick up the nipple’s hue. Echoing in miniature the idealism of a royal pleasure dairy, the cup served fresh cow milk as though directly from an organic source. Both site and vessel exposed what court fashion removed from view: the laiterie d’agrément purported to unveil the labor behind the nourishment that aristocrats took for granted, whilst the breast cup revealed one of the body’s biological functions in a material typically reserved for more dignified subject matter.

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