Sissi's bidet
What you see in photo is the bidet belonged to the Empress of Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria , better known as Sissi.
Yes, during the 19th century, 'personal hygiene she began to become more and more attentive and assiduous, starting, of course, from the highest strata of the population.
The model that belonged to Sissi, as you can see, was a "luxury" model consisting of a finely worked and anatomically shaped porcelain basin resting on a sort of wooden stool:the ablutions were carried out simply by sitting astride it after filling it with water.
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