Europe history: associated pipes

one-handed pipe, no percussion

It is not always obvious which type of pipe is being played in some of the iconography.

Greek/Roman lead figure 2nd to 8th century Jordan 11th century Catalonia, Spain 1170 horn or pipe? Germany 13th century Sicily, Italy end 13th century, Teruel Cathedral, Spain 14th century, Italy, Pan France, stone carving 14th century France, Mercury 14th/15th century Pamplona, Spain 14th - 16th century Cyprus
1408 France 1410-1414 Paris, France, Mercury playing double pipes 15th century Genoa, Italy 1410-20 player and Mercury 1415-1449 Flanders, Belgium 1418 Paris, France 1418-1425 shepherd France f.85v 1430 Lyons, France 1430 1454 to 1513 Denmark
[unknown]   1459 Florence, Italy late 15th century Bruges, Belgium page xi   1450-1475 France 15th century, Mercury Flanders, Belgium Tarot card, Mercury 15th century Mercury, Cognac, France close-up of pipe
1465 Italy not a tarot card 'poetry' 1470-80 Tarot card 'Poetry' 15th/16th century Bologna, Italy 1470 England 'The Fool' 1484 Flemish, Bruges, Pan 1503 book decoration, Rouen, France f248v 1511 female player, Tours, France 1511 female player in a prayer book, France 1517 Germany 1525 Germany, painting 1535 Germany
1544-1552 Basel, Switzerland (or smoking a pipe?)	1552 Mercury, France	c.1570 painting, Flemish
1570 fool playing a pipe from Feast of Fools	16th century mythological Nuremberg, Germany	1570 mythological painting Netherlands / England
1600 Belgium 1603 Augsburg, Germany 1610 Spain
Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain	1600-1625 Italy, putti on cloud	1638 Italy painting (detail)
1614 Netherlands	1650 Antwerp, Belgium	17th century anon
1735 ceramic plate, Italy 1750's France, The Wallace Collection
1738 allegory, Netherlands 1753 Helmstädt, Germany book frontispiece 1770 France 1775 Germany   1780 France 1791 London, England     1743 Meissen 2723 Shepherdess Shepherdess Shepherdess   19th century Meissen copy 19th century copy copy   early 19th century, plate, Russia 19th century painting France from The Delightful Game of the Goose early 19th century France 1820 inkstand, Paris, France   1841 England: Concert of the Alpine Singers at the Assembly Rooms:Norwich Mercury - Saturday 22 May 1841 1840's-60's music cover, France 1876 Russian Federation 1884 painting, England   1888 Belgium ‘Fantastic Musicians’ 1897 siren in Thomas Bulfinch, ‘The Age of Fable’ Philadelphia, USA, page 303 1898 Cyprus   1900 'dancing faun' Luxemburg Gardens , Paris, France 1900 child with pipe and hobby-horse by Hans Boesch, Germany 1930 faun sitting on goat, England   1937 book illustration, France source India (double pipe)
1836North America Menominee |North America, Apache player button, USA, date unknown 2023 Basque Country, part of a band
Dance of Death Images 15th century Augsburger, Bavaria, Germany
1440 The Doctor, Switzerland	1448-53 Bern Cathedral, Switzerland	[unknown]
The Emperor Wellcome Library, London  1617 The Young man 17th century Berne, Switzerland (search dance)
Salzbergen, Germany 1830 Martinskapelle (chapel of Saint Martin), Elbigenalp, Tyrol, Austria 1825-1851 The Young Man

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