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  • Bleeding bowl or porridger, silver gilt, marked 1746-1747.
  • Tin-glazed earthenware bleeding bowl
  • Tin-glazed earthenware bleeding bowl
  • Tin-glazed earthenware bleeding bowl
  • Tin-glazed earthenware bleeding bowl
  • Pewter bleeding bowl, flat handle.
  • Pewter bleeding bowl, loop handle, 17th to 18th century.
  • Pewter bleeding bowl, graduated, no handle, 18th to 19th century.
  • Pewter bleeding bowl, with pierced handle, 17th to 18th century.
  • Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville (in Highland costume), bleeds Neptune while Alexander Trotter holds a bowl to catch the guineas which flow from the incision; representing Trotter's embezzlement of public funds and Melville 's alleged connivance. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1805.
  • A surgeon at Whitworth in County Durham letting blood from Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Durham, but leaving his patient in order to attend to a sick horse. Coloured etching by H.W., 1791.