Antique Blue White Porcelain Barber Shaving Basin Bowl 18th Century Chinese

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Condition Report: 1 chip from rim. Size 31x8CM DiameterxHeight

Sharing with you this Blue and White Porcelain Barber’s Bowl/Basin, used for shaving, bleeding and much more.
18th century, probably Qianlong.
of typical form, painted with different kind of flowers and a butterfly.
31CM diameter

A barber in the 16th -19th century is not what we now call a barber but much more.

Barbers in the modern period are known to do mainly one thing: cut
hair. For much of the last hundred and fifty years, their red and white
striped barber poles signified their ability to produce a good clean
shave and a quick trim. This was not always the case, however.

Up until the 19th century barbers were generally referred to as
barber-surgeons, and they were called upon to perform a wide variety of
tasks. They treated and extracted teeth, branded slaves, created ritual
tattoos or scars, cut out gallstones and hangnails, set fractures, gave
enemas, and lanced abscesses. Whereas physicians of their age examined
urine or studied the stars to determine a patient’s diagnosis,
barber-surgeons experienced their patients up close and personal. Many
patients would go to their local barber for semi-annual bloodletting,
much like you take your car in for a periodic oil change.

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