Stamped "Alcantara Cross" Smoking Pipe Heel and Bowl

One smoking pipe bowl fragment with a round heel. The interior is slightly grayed from smoking. The base of the heel is stamped with an "Alcantara Cross" beneath the initials "BI". The mark is thought to be Dutch (Gouda) in origin by pipe maker Bastiaan Janse van Owerwesel and in production between 1686 to 1705. 

• Object number

  851.8

• Date made

  1686 - 1705

• Decoration

  Stamped

  Rouletted

• Color

  White

• Animals/objects

  Smoking Pipe

• Patterns

  Alcantara Cross

• Category

  Personal

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Ball Clay

• Forms

  Heel/Bowl

• Techniques

  Molded

  Smoking Stains