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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Müteferrika çavuş

Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Muteferica Tsausch.

Painting (watercolour). Folio 63 from an album showing Turkish costume. Müteferrika çavuş. The çavuş of the Imperial Guard, one of the élite. Wearing a green kaftan, or biniş, with very wide sleeves. Tall white turban, widening at the top, with a plume in the gold plume-holder.

Compare: 44 Mouté Ferrika tchaoux : officier des gardes du corps du sultan sultan's bodyguard officer in: Monnier's album: Costumes Orientaux, Bourg-en-Bresse, Ms 65

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.63
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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