Mishnah for Oholot 11:9

כֵּלִים שֶׁבֵּין שִׂפְתֵי כְפִישָׁה לְבֵין שִׂפְתֵי הֶחָדוּת, אֲפִלּוּ עַד הַתְּהוֹם, טְהוֹרִים. טֻמְאָה שָׁם, הַבַּיִת טָמֵא. טֻמְאָה בַבַּיִת, כֵּלִים שֶׁבְּכָתְלֵי הֶחָדוּת, אִם יֵשׁ בִּמְקוֹמָן טֶפַח עַל טֶפַח עַל רוּם טֶפַח, טְהוֹרִים. וְאִם לָאו, טְמֵאִים. אִם הָיוּ כָתְלֵי הֶחָדוּת רְחָבִים מִשֶּׁל בַּיִת, בֵּין כָּךְ וּבֵין כָּךְ טְהוֹרִים:

Vessels that are between the rims of a basket and the rims of a cistern, even until the depths, they are pure. If there was impurity there, the house would be impure. If there was impurity in the house, vessels in the walls of the cistern, if there was in their place a space that is a handbreadth by a handbreadth by a handbreadth height, they are pure, but if not they are impure. If the walls of the cistern were thicker than the house, in either case they are pure.

Mishnah Kelim

The following vessels protect their contents when they have a tightly fitting cover: those made of cattle dung, of stone, of clay, of earthenware, of sodium carbonate, of the bones of a fish or of its skin, or of the bones of any animal of the sea or of its skin, and wooden vessels that are always clean. They protect whether the covers close their mouths or their sides, whether they stand on their bottoms or lean on their sides. If they were turned over with their mouths downwards they afford protection to all that is beneath them to the nethermost deep. Rabbi Eliezer declares this unclean. These protect everything, except that an earthen vessel protects only foods, liquids and earthen vessels.

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