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 618 – 907 AD Shaanxi China, on horseback ; China, a different view 11th century Catalonia, Spain 1170's horn or pipe? Germany   13th century Sicily, Italy end 13th century, Teruel Cathedral, Spain France, stone carving 1289 manuscript, England page 115 1300 Ghent, Belgium 14th century France, Mercury 14th century, Italy, Pan 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 shepherd for dancing 1454 to 1513 Denmark

c 1430 fool, Hague, Belgium late 15th century Bruges, Belgium page xi 14th / 15th century roof boss Norwich Cathedral, Norfolk, England 1450-1475 shepherd, Netherlands close-up of pipes 15th century Warwickshire England 15th century Mercury, Cognac, France close-up of pipe mid 15th century Mercury, England 42r close-up   1450-1475 Mercury, Auvergne, France late 15th century Paris, France page 175 Tarot card, Mercury 1450-1475 Troyes, France 15th century misericord, Holy Trinity Stratford-upon-Avon, England 15th century England, Mercury 98v 1450-60 Poitiers, France   1465 Italy not a tarot card 'poetry' 1470-80 Tarot card 'Poetry 1469 shepherd, France 15th/16th century Bologna, Italy 1470 England 'The Fool' 1471 jester's hood down, Germany   1480 house book from Wolfegg Castle, Germany 1484 Pan, Flemish, Bruges 1493 Germany   between 1492 and 1495 France photo 16 close-up of pipe - 3-hole or recorder?   1494 fresco, Vatican, Italy 1502 Mercury, Germany 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 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 1614 Netherlands

Royal Palace of Madrid, Spain 1600-1625 Italy, putti on cloud 1630's marble, playing for dancing boys, Flemish, Belgium 1638 Italy painting (detail) 1638 Mercury, Antwerp, Belgium (Flemish) 1640's Mercury, Antwerp, Belgium 1650 Antwerp, Belgium 1660-1690 Netherlands 17th century anon

1735 ceramic plate, Italy 1750's France, The Wallace Collection

1700-1725 embroidered picture with Maypole scene, UK 1738 allegory, Netherlands unknown 1750-1800 snuff box side, Germany 1753 Helmstädt, Germany book frontispiece 1767 pattern book, France 1770 France 1775 Germany 1780 France 1789 Austria 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 early 19th century France from The Delightful Game of the Goose 1819 allegorical print, France 1820 inkstand, Paris, France 19th century figurine 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 modern interior design; Chinoiserie 2023 Basque Country, part of a band

Dance of Death Images 15th century Augsburger, Bavaria, Germany

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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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