Small medical container called “sick duck” in tin-bearing earthenware from the South-West. Domed shape with tubular spout, ribboned handle and fixed half-lid pierced with an internal filter. Free floral decoration in ocher on white enamel. Interior with filtration holes near the spout. Typology well attested in Bordeaux/Samadet/Auvillar late 18th-early 19th century. Good general used condition. Wear and chips on the pedestal, small scattered enamel breaks, minor rubbing on the edge of the lid and the spout (see close-up photos). No visible structural cracks, no restoration. Additional room intended for the food and remedies of convalescents; regional production frequent in the South-West at the end of the Ancien Régime. sick duck, old baby bottle, South-West earthenware, Bordeaux, Samad.
