Chamber pot

The portable wooden chamber pot is designed in the form of a chest, with curved lines and a slightly rounded lid adorned with two bands of meandering inlay. Inside the container, there is another round lid and space for a chamber pot. On the side, there is a small water container and a lever for releasing water, topped with a spherical handle.

This type of chamber pot is also referred to as a “hunter’s chamber pot” since it was specifically designed for Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830 – 1916), who was an avid hunter. Despite being designed as a hunter’s chamber pot, this particular piece was never used for that purpose but instead served as a chamber pot within a bourgeois house.