Victorian Floral Foot Bath / Basin — Shell-Scroll End, Pink Ground

Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:58:50 +0000

Before indoor plumbing, homes kept portable basins for washing and warming tired feet. Strong, inexpensive ironstone let potteries make large vessels, and transfer printing covered them with fashionable bouquets at speed. Victorian home remedies even recommended a mustard foot bath for chills and colds. That’s why these deep oval bowls survive in numbers today—useful then, decorative now.