Toilet box, late 15th or early 16th century, Italian, Venice, Painted enamel on copper, partly gilt, glass, Diameter: approx. 3 in. (approx. 7.6 cm), Enamels-Painted, This dainty box, which separates into two hemispheres, may have been intended to hold so-called wash balls—potash mixed with various oils and scented with powdered herbs, roots, and flowers then kneaded into a paste and shaped into small balls of soap
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Toilet box, late 15th, early 16th century, Italian, Venice, Painted enamel, copper, partly gilt, glass, Diameter, approx, 3, 7.6 cm, Enamels-Painted, dainty, box, separates, two hemispheres, intended, hold, wash balls—potash, mixed, various oils, scented, powdered herbs, roots, flowers, kneaded, paste, shaped, small balls, soap
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