a ‘bourdaloue’. the need to pee. an eye. a rogue.
The need to pee…Natural. Necessary. Discretion Required.
The urinal. Portable. ‘Made for women’. A necessary and convenient contraption.
This one has an inscription:
ha! je te vois, petit coquin
( ha! I see you, little rogue!)
I have a question. Who is addressing whom? The lady? Is addressing a voyeur? Or is there a reference to the view from the urinal???? Just wondering…
Image from Lauren Alwan on X
These two images above are bourdaloues… female urinals.
Portable. convenient for the times, perhaps. Artisan crafted.
This bourdaloue below is ‘beautiful’…seriously. It looks just like a gravy boat. But it isn’t.
The bourdaloue above? It changed me…I used to LOVE drinking my coffee out of large, artistic ceramic mugs…NO MORE.
The image below? Guess? Nope. Not a bourdaloue. It is a gravy boat.
Andy Mabbett, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
What came first, the gravy boat or the gravy boat shaped bourdaloue???
I know most people dont use gravy boats today. But still. Gravy Boats are/were a thing. As were bourdaloues.
Aesthetics are aesthetics. Someone, somewhere, must have known better and could have made the difference – Perhaps, one could have used a little imagination and made the urinals or the gravy boats in a completely different style…
They look easily ‘interchangeable’…ew.
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