What is this antique (c. 1900) device that I believe is almost certainly toilet-related

Look at the wall behind the left shoulder of the girl in the middle. The entire contraption, I think, is for, shall we say, personal business. The big bowl for washing one’s hands, and the big circular gizmo above it I think is the predecesser to the modern toilet seat. Allows the user to sit [more or less] comfortably while above the chamber pot.

Is the entire device all one contraption? Like is the user’s head beneath the washbowl while she sits and poops? And it seems to be in an attic - did they keep these things handy in every room in the Edwardian Era (before bathrooms)?

It looks like there’s a smaller version behind the other girl and a high chair behind the third girl. I might be off a few decades, but I thought they had a “water closet” for ablutions and “the loo” was another term for it, derived from “visiting Lady Louisa.”

To me, it looks like a standard washstand where the “toilet seat gizmo” is supposed to have a mirror in it.

Compare with this:

Looks like a mirror above a washing bowl to me.

OH, that makes sense!!! And what I thought was just shadow in the lower right hand corner is the reflection of the timber holding up the roof!

It does look like a high chair - a dangerous and precarious one.

If “visiting Lady Louisa” is an actual expression, it derives from “loo”, not the other way around. “Loo” derives from French “le lieu”, “the place”.

Now you’ve done it! Unca Cecil sez:

If it helps here is a video from the movie the picture in the OP is from:

The “picture” in the OP.is that video.

The version I know is that it derives from l’eau - (the) water. But google AI says there’s no consensus.

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