Quoting Kate M Bunting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
It's well known that 18th century sideboards had a cupboard for a chamber-pot, to be used by the gentlemen after the ladies had retired to the drawing-room. No doubt in the more robust 17th century it was considerd OK to do so in mixed company. On the subject of bowdlerised paintings - isn't there a medieval scene (I think in the Tres Riches Heures) showing people warming themselves by a fire, including a man holding up his tunic (?) skirts and showing everything? I've seen a reproduction of that with the relevant area blurred over. Also, Hogarth painted a friend of his leaning out of bed being sick in a chamber pot, which was later repainted at the request of the man's family to make him appear to be reading in bed.
Yeah. It's February. All the dangly bits are in plain view. susan ----- Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
