Surgery


Kidney (2)

Bizarr kidney, about 1940 

 

 

The model presented here deviates from the classic "kidney shells" by the abnormality of its form. Here, the surgeon was really spoiled for choice.

 

The kidney pelvis had originally been an "abscess shell" that was kept under the bump before the surgeon cut that pus. See the French name of the bowl "cuvette à pus". Since the shell was pressed against the body, it was obvious to give it a body shape. The body is nowhere straight, so no square shell. In order to make the shells particularly versatile, a bizarre form was developed in addition to the kidney shape, which had 3 to 4 different strong concavities - as the example presented here.

 

The make (stamp on the bottom) is unknown to me.

 

A word about enameling: even the ancient Egyptians knew the e-mail and thus made art and jewelry items. The Romans and Gauls knew the technique and used it to decorate their fibulae.
The main component of today's enamels is a light-bodied, lead-rich, tin oxide-opaque glass, which is either used as white enamel, or colored by metal oxides such as cobalt oxide (blue) or copper oxide (green).
When enameling metals, the mass does not come to complete flow. Rather, it assumes only a dough-like state, in which the powder applied to the metal enamel united to form a coherent coating that has quite the look when cooling, as if it had been completely liquid.