I hope it wasn't a used one.

Just in case, I think I will turn it into a flower pot. It certainly won't hurt anything.

I am a real estate photographer. A month ago, I was hired to shoot a home that was built in 1862. The "bathroom" had a arm chair, with a very nice cloth cover on the seat, and a matching skirt....the seat could be lifted off to reveal the chamber pot, which of course would slide easily out between the front legs for emptying.
We have it so easy now with our bidets.

I'd have thought you would have had to buy that at an antique store.

Make up a story, sell it on eBay & donate the proceeds or keep it around so you'll always 'have a pot to piss in'.

You just never know when it will come in handy.

just pull it out and hand it to them.
Should be a great way to get rid of unwanted guests

Hmm...

A drunk guy comes home and his neglected wife tries explaining what he is seeing. The chamber pot reference being in towards the end of the third verse. Funny song actually, this version from Steeleye Span:

"Four Nights Drunk"

Now as I come home so drunk, I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a horse, no horse should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the horse there, no horse should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a milk cow me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Saddle on a milk cow I've never seen before.

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw boots, no boots should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the boots there, no boots should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a flower pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Laces on a flower pot I've never seen before.

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a hat, no hat should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the hat there, no hat should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a chamber pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Sweat-band on a chamber pot I've never seen before.

And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a man, no man should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the man there, no man should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a baby me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Whiskers on a baby I've never seen before, oh.

Good one.

in the winter, in a drafty house without central heating. You need a plate to cover it.

house had inside plumbing. Old habits, I guess.

They were very ornamental. You would never have guessed what they were used for if you didn't know already.

When I was young, her mother's death my grandfather would visit. Dad would set up a cot in the dining room and Granddad had a chamberpot to use during the night. Mom would clean it out every morning.

That chamberpot had been used daily by Granddad's father and grandfather before they had indoor plumbing.

I'm not sure who is going to end up with it, but I am not volunteering to take it!

Mom was a RN - she was used to cleaning bedpans after patient use. A chamber pot was just a larger version.

Just being silly.

I visited someone who proudly displayed a "ewer and basin" that she had inherited. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was actually a chamber pot and pitcher for rinsing it.

No running water, the outhouse is COLD in the winter in Interior Alaska....

Honeybuckets!!!

Rich man has a canopy OVER the bed......

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(Poor man has a can o' pee UNDER the bed!)

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heh heh.

I hear he likes this sort of thing...