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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Sarıkcı başı


Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Sarikychi Bachi, Porte-Turban du Gr. Seignr.

Painting (watercolour). Folio 14 from an album showing Turkish costume. Sarıkcı başı, chief of the turban folders, who was in charge of the servants who looked after the Sultan's turbans. He is carrying a turban on a turban stand and wearing a kâtibî kavuk with a green cap. Sable-lined red kaftan with long cuffs.


Compare:

35 Durbendar Agha : porte turban du grand seigneur, le sultan
carries the turban of the great lord, the sultan
in: Monnier's album: Costumes Orientaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ms 65


British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.14
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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