Music

Musician and dancer (Museum für Asiatische Kunst III 8914). China - 8th-9th C.

Pendant of Musician (Walters Art Museum 57.284). Panama - 800-1521

Turtle bell pendant (Brooklyn Museum 59.237.1). Mexico - 1200-1521  

Comb (V&A Museum 227-1867). Italy - ca. 1400 

Panel (V&A Museum A.48-1953). Netherlands - 1440-70

Relief (V&A Museum REPRO.1899-4). Italy - 1475-1499

Comb (Kunstgewerbemuseum F 1561). Germany - end of 15th C. 

Concert (Louvre MNR 826). 16th C. 

Irish missal (Bodleian Library). 16th C.

Apollo and Marsyas (V&A Museum 95-1865). Italy - ca. 1500-25

Portrait of a Youth and Viola by Zacchia (Louvre MI 610; Campana 447). 1500-25

Outdoor Instrumental Concert (Louvre MNR 308; D.1951.3.2). Italy - 1500-50 

Manuscript cutting (V&A Museum 9001O). Netherlands - ca 1510 

Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian I (V&A Museum 13079:122). Germany - ca. 1516-19

A Lute Player (Gemäldegalerie 1795). before 1520 

Dish (V&A Museum C.2117-1910). Italy - 1525

David and Bathsheba by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Gemäldegalerie 567B). 1526 

Print by Cornelius Bos (V&A Museum 23090:25). Belgium - 1548

Entertainers in a Brothel, 1550s

Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1567

May labours plate (Kunstgewerbemuseum K 5010). France - after 1568

Panoplia sev armamentarium (V&A Museum 20341:4, 20341:6, 20341:11, 20341:12, 20341:13). Belgium - 1572

Musique by Etienne Delaune (V&A Museum 22745:4). France - pre-1573

Nouveaux Portraitz (V&A Museum 15246). France - ca. 1592

An der Grenze gefangene Christen mit Bewachung (135:66r), Musikkapelle (338:166r), Perser musiziert auf Porzellanschüsseln (342:168r), Bescheidungszeremonienzug: berittene Pfeiffer (386:190r), Trommler (390:192r), Trompeter (394:194r) Türkisches Manierenbuch (UniKassel Versitat 4° Ms. hist. 31). 1595

Painting (V&A Museum IS.41-1996). India - ca. 1595-1605 



Bells

Bells on Heraldic Art.

 

Niger bronze bell (British Museum Af1909,0811.3). Nigeria - 900-1600

Bull handbell (Ashmolean EA1997.234). Java - 10th C.

Bell with vajra handle (Ashmolean EAX.240). Java - 10th-12th C. 

Bell (British Museum 1852,0329.301). Latvia - 11th-12th C.

Bell chain (British Museum 1852,0329.384). Latvia - 11th-12th C.

Animal bell pendant (British Museum 1852,0329.228.b). Latvia - late 11th-early 12th C. 

Brooch chains and bell (British Museum 1852,0329.129). Latvia - 12th C.

Cup bell (British Museum 1854,0714.2). Ireland - 12th C.

Chains of bells (British Museum 1852,0329.195). late Latvia - 12th-early 13th C.

Pendant bell (British Museum 1985,1101.900). England - 1280-1356

Ribbed bell (British Museum 1852,0329.165). Latvia - 13th C.

 

Instruments

Clapper (Museum für Islamische Kunst I. 3458). Egypt - 10th-15th C.

Gheṇṭa prayer bell (The Met 30.87.6). Java - 11th C.

Savernake horn (British Museum 1975,0401.1). 12th & 14th C.

Citole (British Museum 1963,1002.1). England - 1280-1330 

Horn (Kunstgewerbemuseum K 3105). Italy - early 13th C. 

Dung-Chen (The Met 1988.349). China - 1368–1644

Horn (V&A Museum 7954-1862). England - early 15th C.

Horn (V&A Museum REPRO.1884-291). Germany - 15th C.

Sgra-Snyan (The Met 1989.55). Tibet - 14th-15th C.

Rebecchino (The Met 64.101.1409). Italy - 1420

Horn (Museum für Islamische Kunst K 3107). 16th C.

Virginal (The Met 53.6a, b). Italy - 1540

Lute (V&A Museum 194:1, 2-1882). Italy - 1540

Regal (The Met 89.4.2883). Germany - 1575

Cornett (V&A Museum 1123-1869). Italy - ca. 1580

Claviorganum by Steffan Cuntz (The Met 89.4.1191). Germany - 1598

Rectangular Octave Virginal (The Met 89.4.1778). Germany - 1600

Pipa (The Met 50.145.74). China - late 16th–early 17th C.

Koto (The Met 2007.194a–f). Japan - early 17th C.

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