The pottery potty chair

[bunnyjadwiga]

This is the Greek version:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/18/ancient-greek-potty.html

but I'm sure I've seen a version of this in a netherlandish picture....

Comments

[amykb.livejournal.com]

Cool!

[spikywheel.livejournal.com]

that would certainly keep them in one place....

I'd love to see the scale of this. How big is it actually??

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

I believe the live baby in the picture was between 18 and 24 months. Now I know what museum it's in, I think I can find more... here's an article:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0SDG/is_1_75/ai_n16545971
on it.

[jackoutofthebox.livejournal.com]

AND YOU CAN JUST SEE THE MOTHER SAYING "NO, I'M NOT GOING TO PICK YOU UP UNTIL YOU DO IT".

potty chair

[stefsoap.livejournal.com]

Cool. No escape! No duct tape required!

And how much fun it would be to get a child with a dirty bum out of this potty chair. it'd be like those baby swings with the overhead bar that I always bonked the kids heads on, or wiggling them out of restaurant high chairs.

Re: potty chair

[jacylrin.livejournal.com]

I was so happy when I found a baby swing for my daughter (now 8) that had an open top (and was battery-powered so I didn't have to crank it every five minutes).

But yeah, the rim on this potty would be bound to get covered in ick.

[landverhuizer.livejournal.com]

yup, most certainly!

but I love the pottery one, it's so cute!

[lucianus.livejournal.com]

Unrelated to potty chairs but definitely related to potty going, I was poking through EEBO not too long ago and came upon this:

Author: Brome, Alexander, 1620-1666.
Title: Ratts rhimed to death. Or, The Rump-Parliament hang'd up in the Shambles. Date: 1659 Reel position: Thomason / 219:E.1761[2]
Copy from: British Library

With this poem:

Bum-Fodder, or Wast-Paper proper to wipe the Nations RUMP with, or your own
(page 40 of the original document)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

That would certainly solve any simple escape problem.

[pearl]

This is off topic, but I know you're looking for hygiene-related stuff.

Ieva Rėklaitytė. "Asmeninės higienos reikmenys iš Vilniaus žemutinės pilies Valdovų rūmų archeologinės medžiagos" in Archeologia Lituana No. 5 2004 pp. 121-128 Free PDF, rest of the journal here.

The title is translated as "Personal hygiene toilet items from the archaeological excavations of the Vilnius Lower Castle"

There are clearer photos of the toothbrush here. I haven't been able to track down any of the other pictures yet.

Hope this helps :)

[pearl]

Two more links that might be useful:

Juuti Petri Kaivot ja käymälät (Wells and Toilets) (Tampere University Press, 2005) ISBN: 951-44-6251-3
Can download as a PDF

Searching for other papers published by Petri here gives some more articles that may be useful, and this webpage written by him does mention toilets before 1600 in Finland.

Hope this random post helps too! :)

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

OOH thank you lots for these articles !

[ren_flora.livejournal.com]

Link parking! http://shl.stanford.edu:3455/TenThings/1176
Supposedly this is a "History of the Toilet" but it has a modern/technical design focus.