
This pot with a handle on the side and a Red Cross emblem on top:

"It is called an invalid feeding cup."
"German here. My Grandma owned a similar one, which came out whenever someone was bedridden. It virtually eliminates the need to get the bedridden person into an upward position for drinking/administering fluid. As the patient, you simply put your mouth around the nozzle and then drink out of it — well, more like sucking on it, actually. Little to no risk to spill stuff, no matter which position your body is placed in."