About this piece
back to topA rare antique George Jennings London wash basin dating to circa 1890. With an original porcelain basin decorated with floral transfers and butterflies, accompanied by scalloped shaped soap dishes, this sink is quite eye-catching; making it ideal for a vintage style main bathroom or ensuite.
It was previously removed from an English country houses before being put into storage, untouched for 15 years.
The antique porcelain sink sits upon a modern custom two door cabinet, decorated in various butterflies, ideal for housing bathroom essentials as well as it improving its stylish decor.
George Jennings
Jennings was a keen designer and influencer of the underground ‘public convenience’. After a substantial inheritance left to him by his grandmother, Anne Jennings, George was able to begin his sanitary career.
A high point of his career included the Medal of the Society of Arts awarded to him by Prince Albert in 1847. Four years later, Jennings installed his Monkey Closets in the Retiring Rooms of the Crystal Palace at The Great Exhibition. This cemented his success in the sanitary world and his invention of the first flush toilet was revolutionary.
Over 800,000 people paid a penny to use his flush toilets at the Exhibition, which coined the phrase ‘to spend a penny’. After this people became fascinated with the new flush toilet. There were over 200,000 installed in London four years later.
