Round bedpan with a wide lip and nozzle end, covered with an orange glaze and bown splotches.
bedpans (containers)
lead glaze
redware
Redware
Lead Glaze
BEDPAN
In yellow paint on the bottom undrside reads: 5321/N.F.S . Handwritten in pencil on the bottom underside reads: (indistinct) perhaps ""Mrs. Litt. Nissin"" .
Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),
Unknown
3 x 12 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little
1991.1640
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