Well, why have one bedpan when you can have two?
Today’s bedpan is 100 years older (at least) as compared with the one we saw a few days ago. This one dates, we think, from the early years of the nineteenth century.
Early 19th century bedpan at Market Lavington Museum
It is not a mass produced item and we think it would have been made by a fairly local potter. Of course, its function and method of use is identical to the other bedpan.
The UK science museum has a similar looking pan at http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/objects/display.aspx?id=5270.
A bedpan at the UK Science Museum
The suggestion is that this pan dates back to the 16th or 17th century. It looks less smoothly made than ours.
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