the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

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ceramic figures, 18th century onwards

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" jellies, biscuits, sugar-plumbs, and creams have long given way to [ceramic] harlequins, gondoliers, Turks, Chinese and shepherdesses of Saxon china"
1753, Walpole

 
player 1745 Fitzwilliam Musem, Cambridge playerCris de Paris 1745-50 Meissen
1750 Longton Hall
British Museum
18th century Limoges18th century Limoges
1755-7 Chelsea, Pierrot
(restored pipe)
1755 Chelsea

1755 Chelsea
(with restorations)

1760-701760 -70 pair of candlesticks 1760-701760 -70 candlesticks, Chelsea player
playerBow
player1765 Bow
player c1758 Bow
player 1770 Bow
player 1755 Bow1755 Bow
18th century

player 1755-60 Bow

pkayer1755-60 Bow
playerc1760 Bow
player
BowBow
player
1755-60 Bow
blue jacket
1760-62
1760-65 Bow
Bow
Bow
c1760 Bow copy
1765 Chelsea
1765 Chelsea
1760-65 Chelsea

player1790 Derby (restored)
player 1765 Derby
player
playercopy Derby
 player
player, brokenBloorDerby
playerDerby, Victorian copy
player orange hat player
ceramic
1755 Bow1755 Bow
1760's Chelsea
player
1758-69 Chelsea
Chelsea copy
player
orange drum
player
player
player
player
1765 Chelsea
pipe and tabor
blue jacket
blue jacket
ceramic figure
ceramic statuette
player1860
player
orange drum
player
black jacket
pipe and tabor
purple bows
player
purple hat
1760-65 Mennecy, V&A
 
possibly Mennecy
1770-75 New Hall

1770 Plymouth
1790 Staffordshire Pearlware

unknown unknown
20th century20th c
player
Victorian Meissen
1830's
20th c Provence
20th cVolkstedt
crude copy
red shoes
  
1950's or 1960's1950's or 1960's modelled
on Kenworthy Schofield, England
lady player
       

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©an on-going project with lots more to add Last modified 15 June, 2022