the Pipe and Tabor compendium

the Pipe and Tabor compendium

essays on the three-hole pipe

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European decorative arts

interior design

household items

vase 1759-68
Bowes Museum

vase 1768
3-hole pipe (possibly)
copyright - The Royal Collection

print 1792 British Museum

mug 1800 -"A French family"
V& A Museum

vase1770
V&A Museum

plate centre 1789
drum, 2 sticks and wind instrument?
France

18th century plate centre

18th century plate centre, France

ivory

ivory, band member statuette
south Germany

no drumstick clock

ormolu clock date unknown

clock

clock late Victorian

leather box

leather-covered box [thanks to Terry Carter]

wall decoration

tile vignette 1753
3-hole pipe (possibly) Germany

tiles 18th c.
Portugal

tiles 1755-60
Portugal, V&A Museum

ceramic tile 1770, Liverpool
British Museum

tile

tile Catalonia, Spain

wall stucco decoration 18th c.
private house, Gloucestershire

wall stucco 1753
Christ Church Library, Oxford

wall painting 1737 France

18th c automota devised by Vaucanson

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