Washhand stand

Our middle class householder will have of household goods about him, carpets, mahogany chairs, tables, chests of drawers, curtained beds, washhand stands, crockeryware in abundance, and good cutleryware; and in his stock of wearing apparel, shirts, drawers, stockings, handkerchiefs, and such articles, whether seen or unseen, in comfortable plenty.

The sherbet was generally placed on a washhand stand in my private office. My washhand stand was in the far corner of the room, on entering, to the right front.

There are no baths or washhand stands, / A gum block stands outside / With bowl and bucket, where to hands / And face may be applied / A morning, noon, or evening sluice / In water from the spring, / To which soap is of little use, / ’Tis hard as anything.