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Bedpan

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Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

ca. 1875

GUSN

GUSN-25600

Description

Shaped yellow-ware bedpan w/ attached pipe at swelled end of elliptical body. Canted top.

Details

Descriptive Terms

bedpans (containers)
yellowware
Yelloware
BEDPAN

Associated Building

Coffin House (Newbury, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

11.75 (W) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret E.C. Merriam in memory of her mother Elizabeth Low Coffin Colman

Accession Number

1985.631

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