Rouletted Smoking Pipe Bowl Rim

One complete white ball clay smoking pipe bowl with delicate but sloppy rouletting around the rim. the bowl is small and funnel-shaped with an elbow. The elbow is marked with most of the impression has been broken off. The mark appears to be a crown within a circle, with perhaps the mark "HG" beneath. The interior and edge of the rim is heavily blackened from smoke damage.

• Object number

  199.6

• Date made

  17th Century

• Dimensions

  Height 1.55 inches

  Rim Diameter 0.74 inches

• Decoration

  Rouletted

• Color

  White

• Animals/objects

  Smoking Pipe

• Category

  Personal

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Ball Clay

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Sub-Landfill: River Bottom Silt Deposit (624.199)

• Forms

  Bowl/Rim

• Techniques

  Molded

  Burned