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Artifact Name	Ceramic Bedpan
Type of Object	Bedpan
Manufacturer	Edwin M. Knowles China Company
Place of Manufacture	Chester (W. Va.)
Date of Manufacture	1910-1914
Time Period	Twentieth century
Dimensions	13 cm. x 28 cm. x 40 cm.
Physical Details	Ceramic bedpan with wide lip and handle. Basin has a wide oval-shaped opening which slopes approximately 45 degrees from the top of the apparatus, and the opening is straight towards the lower lip. Slipper style. Handle is open for the pouring out of waste collected in the pan, wide tube. Bottom is stamped "Vitreous" with an illustration of what appears to be a jar(?); other stamps are "Edwin M. Knowles China Co." and "10-2-1."
Medical Subject	Toilet Facilities
Other Subject	Bedpans -- History
Accession Number	2009.5.2
Type	Stillimage
Format	image/jp2
Rights Management	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection	Medical Artifacts Collection
Contributor	Tompkins-McCaw Library. Special Collections & Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Local genre	medical artifact

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