One nearly complete belly-shaped smoking bowl with a rouletted rim and attached stem of a pipe with an EB maker's mark on its oval heel. The interior surface of the bowl is blackened. The heel is marked with a crowned EB surrounded by a decorative circle. The bore diameter of the stem is 7/64 inches. Made of white ball clay. EB pipes were manufactured in Amsterdam by an Englishman from Surrey named Edward Bird (Burt). Documents list Bird as a pipe maker in 1630. After his demise in 1655, Bird's son Evert, continued manufacturing pipes, probably using the EB mark.
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Object number
925.178
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Date made
1620 - 1640
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Dimensions
Bore Diameter 7 inches
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Decoration
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Color
White
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Animals/objects
Smoking Pipe
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Category
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Class
Ceramic
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Material
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Context
Lot 10* Front Portion, Landfill Deposit GS2: Greenish Gray Sandy Silt (624.925)
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Forms
Stem/Heel/Bowl
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Techniques
Molded
Burned
