Black-figure mastos - this shape of drinking-cup is called a "mastos" and resembles a woman's breast - Archaic Greek, ca. 530 BCE
Black-figure mastos - on the front, a soldier whose nudity signifies heroic status advances against two warriors dressed in short tunics; two heralds watch from either side. Archaic Greek, ca. 520-500 BCE
Marie Antoinette’s Sèvres porcelain Bol Sein breast cup - 1788 - In 1787, Jean-Jacques Lagrenée le Jeune and Louis-Simon Boizot created the Bol Sein, also called Jatte tétons at the time, for the dairy of Rambouillet, a leisure farm offered by King Louis XVI to Marie-Antoinette. Her majesty commissioned the white porcelain bowl so the guests at her dairy farm could drink the fresh goat milk of the farm in the porcelain reproduction of her royal breast. The original Marie Antoinette bowl was held by a tripod base featuring decorations including Graeco-Roman inspired goat-head pots, Etruscan-handles vases, and cow-feet terrines. Marie Antoinette’s Sèvres porcelain ‘bol sein’ breast cup - 1788
Bol Sein - Sèvres porcelain
Bol Sein - Sèvres porcelain 5000€ 1 Kg gold (reverse)
Bol Sein - Sèvres 5000€ 1 Kg gold (face)
Lagerfeld - Dom Perignon Bol Sein - modeled on the left breast of Claudia Schiffer
Antoine Boudin - Bol Sein coffee set - 2012
Bol Sein (detail)
