Man playing shawm

Unknown


Item type:
architectural object
Date of creation:
ca. 1458
Technique / Medium:
wood carving

    Item location

  • All Saints Church (Wing, Buckinghamshire, England)
    On a post supporting the nave

Description

Shawm with typical Renaissance cupped pirouette.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Shawm [4258]

Bibliographic references

Montagu, Jeremy and Gwen Montagu. Minstrels & angels: Carvings of musicians in medieval English churches (Berkeley, Calif.: Fallen Leaf Press, 1998) 56, plate 96. ISBN 0914913409. RILM 1999-22611.

RIdIM record id

4232