1752 Philadelphia tilting sink - GIF

[mklotz]

Couldn't see the point of that. The bottom sink must have a drain.

Not necessarily. Eighteenth century colonial homes would have no plumbing. The basin would probably empty into a bucket that was then hand carried to a waste pit or to the open channel in the street that served as a sewer line similar to the way the Romans did it.

[Floradawg]

Not necessarily. Eighteenth century colonial homes would have no plumbing. The basin would probably empty into a bucket that was then hand carried to a waste pit or to the open channel in the street that served as a sewer line similar to the way the Romans did it.

It may end up on someone's head. But gray would be better than black.