Chamber pot - insert???

[DoctorDoctor 1,077]

So, I went online to buy an antique chamber pot as decoration and possibly a conversation starter for guests to see if they are into pee.

When I started looking online I found: plain chamber pots, chamber pots with lids, and chamber pots with lids and inserts?  The inserts were matching shallow, disk-like porcelain bowls with one or multiple holes that looks to fit across the chamber pot opening and under the lid.

OK, I get the lid (to keep smells and visuals of pee from view), but what is the "insert" used for?  As a male, it seems like these inserts would make more splatter and splashing if one would leave it in place while peeing.

Any chamber pot aficianados out there that can comment on the use of the insert (and is it something that adds value or that I should look for)?

[Peewee123 1,111]

I’ve never looked into chamber pots but could it be for excrement so it stays in the insert and the pee goes to the pot? Or could it be so when you carry the pot that it’s less likely to spilL out?

[Bacardi 9,213]

Having spent time using bedpans in hospitals, I'm 99 percent certain they're for #2. Easier to clean/collect stool samples if needed!

[DoctorDoctor 1,077]

Oh, I guess I never thought of that.  Thought it all got emptied at the same place and time and virtually nobody used them for #2.  Guess I don't want the insert, if I want to avoid conversations about #2 with my guests.

Thanks.

If anyone else has any chamber pot info. (related to peeing) then please continue the thread.

 

[milimetr1975 360]

Hello, I have bought this type of chamber pot vintage and I use it, if you want to sit on it and use it as our great-grandmothers and great-grandparents, it must be at least 22 cm in diameter