The waste dump of Jan Blij, a unique find fully disturbed

Original title: De pijpenstort van Jan Blij, een verkeken kans

By Don Duco

Abstract: An article on a unique waste dump found in a cellar in Gorinchem, Holland where a pipemaker dumped his waste over a period of about fifteen to twenty years. The maker of this material cound be identified and his assortment reconstructed. The article describes the pipes and illustrates this typical Gorinchem workshop.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 1992.

Illustrations

1. Short pipes of ordinary quality with undecorated bowl. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.496a-d

2. Pipes of ordinary quality with on the bowl sides a rose motive. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.403k, Pk 1.496ef

3. Pipe bowls with on both sides a standing lion with crown, type 1. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 366cd

4. Pipe bowls with on both sides a standing lion with crown and sword, type 2. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 366abf

5. Pipe bowls with on both sides a standing lion without crown between branches with leaves and Orange apples, type 3. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1710-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 378ab, Pk 620b

6. Pipe bowl with on both sides a standing lion with crown between branches with leaves and Orange apples, the mould seams bordered with pearl rows, type 4. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1710-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 620a

7. Tobacco pipe with on the bowl cracks caused by uneven drying. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1710-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 8.945

8. Various pipe bowls with in relief standing lion and spots of lead glaze. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.403a-i

9. Nine pipebowls backed together with brown lead glaze. Gorinchem, Jan Jansz. Blij, 1705-1720.
Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 8.946

Notes

1. Unfortunate non of the diggers took notice of the fragments of the saggars, hence nothing can be said about that material.

2. Municipal Archives (GA) Gorinchem, Rechterlijk Archief (RA) 411, fol 21, 06-04-1693.

3. GA Gorinchem, Archief Stadsbestuur (OA) 2, fol 50, 12-10-1697.

4. GA Gorinchem, RA 349, fol 89, 14-06-1702.

5. GA Gorinchem, Archief Hervormde Diaconie 66, fol 45, 1725.

6. GA Gorinchem, OA 114, fol 27v, 08-09-1693. Idem, OA 117, fol 53, 27-09-1731.

7. Don Duco, ‘The Assortment of Arend van Dijk, pipemaker in Gouda, Holland’, Leiden, 1988.