This is a chamberpot from the Museum of Savoy in Chambéry, France. The museum hosts items from the local past, a witness to the popular culture and way of life of the 19th and early 20th century. When houses didn't have bathrooms, chamberpots were under every bed. I still remember those in my granny's house. Some of them had saucy sentences, others had an eye painted on the bottom. Typical peasant humor. This one says: L'amour c'est deux indefrisables sur le meme bigoudis. A sexual joke meaning Love is two perm curls on the same curler. In French argot bigoudi is a synonym for penis. This is a tribute to Duchamp's Fountain, but while that urinal winked at male sexuality, my potty has a more feminine connotation. After many beautiful masterpieces, I hope you'll enjoy a bit of playfulness. Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He influenced the development of post-World War I Western art, not only as an artist, but also as an advisor for modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures. A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain. He believed that 'The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.' Fountain is a 1917 work, one of the pieces which he called readymades (also known as found art), because he made use of an already existing object—in this case a urinal, which he titled signed R. Mutt from the J. L. Mott Iron Works, 118 Fifth Avenue,New York, where he had bought the urinal, but he altered it to Mutt, after the daily cartoon strip Mutt and Jeff. The art show to which Duchamp submitted the piece stated that all works would be accepted, but Fountain was not actually displayed, and the original has been lost. Replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s are now on display in a number of different museums. In December 2004, Duchamp's Fountain was voted the most influential artwork of the 20th century by 500 selected British art world professionals. Thank you for your kind comments.