Pottery, painted "Milk Vase", 18th Dynasty, from Sawama (tomb no. 91) excavated by Wainwright and  Whittemore for the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1914
 

Early 18th Dynasty potters produced vessels with applied clay in the shape of a woman's head, arms, and breasts.
The Ebers Medical Papyrus, a list of remedies and prescriptions composed in the first years of the dynasty, describes the curative powers of breast milk from a woman who has given birth to a male child. According to the papyrus, a person in pain should store this milk in a jar until cream appears and then apply this cream to "all the sick places." A "milk vase" such as the example here may have contained this magic liquid.