the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe


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England: Decorative Arts

interior design

gallery contents

household items

leather box

leather box base

leather box taborer

the taborer

1770's

vase 1770
V&A Museum

1770's

1770 vase taborer

18th century figure

18th century Staffordshire figure

mug design

1792 "A French family" original caricature

mug

mug 1800 with "A French family" design
V&A Museum

wall decoration

16th century

16th century Bramall Hall, Greater Manchester,wall painting

"the 'heavenly' musicians...playing a euphonic stringed instrument, contrasted with the monkey near the floor, playing a raucous pipe and tabor for two rats; this is the music of the 'high' versus the 'low'"

plaster panel in the Great Hall, Montacute House, Somerset
The original owner of the house, a 17th century magistrate,
had this plasterwork panel illustrating the 'Stang Ride'
placed in his Great Hall where he entertained important visitors.
(more images here)

15th century wood carving Tudor Abington Manor, Northamptonshire, wood panel (more images here)

18th century
Wentworth Castle painting

1770

ceramic tile 1770, Liverpool
British Museum

18th century wall stucco decoration 18th c. page 34
private house, Gloucestershire

wall stucco 1753
Christ Church Library, Oxford

1768

around 1768 decorative wall panel,
Waddeson Manor, Buckinghamshire

early 20th century

early 20th century
carved wood fireplace surround

painted glass

1880

1880 painted glass panel

Betley Window

1550-1621 Betley window

clock

18th century

18th century automata musical bracket clock: each musician with an articulated arm London

18th century

clock face player

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