£120
A George III barber's brass shaving/bleeding bowl, of oval form, plain rim, filled hanging piercing, 33cm wide, c.1815
For a similar example, see Rupert Gentle and Belinda Feild, Domestic Metalwork 1640-1820, Antique Collector's Club, page 368. These items also doubled as bleeding bowls, the cut-away fitting into the crook of the elbow (the most common place for blood-letting).
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