Antique copper bedpan with wooden top handle.

Antique copper bedpan with wooden handle.
Dimensions: length 50 cm, pan diameter 18 cm.
A bedpan is an antique utensil.
In earlier times it was used to preheat the bed in winter when there were no jugs yet.

The whole consists of a flat-round copper container with a hinged lid with some ventilation holes. A long wooden handle is attached to this pan. The pan could be filled with hot stones, boiling water or embers, but the latter was not without danger of sliding between the sheets. The bed pan resembles a frying pan, but with an extra long handle and the aforementioned lid. top