Peter Dorni Smoking Pipe Stem, Bowl, and Rim

A ball clay pipe stem and bowl with "Peter Dorni" embossed stem manufactured in the Netherlands by the Prince Company. Probably made by Johannes Van Zutphen (1850-67) or Pieter Goedewaager (1867-1945) of Gouda. Dorni is a 19th-century reference to "Peter Dorn" a well known member of an 18th-century piper-making family. 

• Object number

  1

• Date made

  1835 - 1898

• Dimensions

  Bore Diameter 5 inches

• Animals/objects

  Smoking Pipe

• Category

  Personal

• Class

  Ceramic

• Functions

  Smoking/Social Drug

• Material

  Ball Clay

• Context

  Lot 9, Test Cut AR, Early-20th-Century Fill, Strata IX (544.980)

• Forms

  Stem/Bowl/Rim