A Zeyat or Oil Seller with Customers in his Shop in Cairo Source: The Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, And Modes Of Life, In The Valley Of The Nile. Published 1848.… Read More
A Zeyat or Oil Seller with Customers in his Shop in Cairo.
Category: Turkey
Costumes, customs, traditions and history of Turkey.
A Janissary and a Merchant in Cairo. The Oriental Album.
A Janissary and a Merchant in Cairo. Source: The Oriental Album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile by James Augustus St. John (1801-1875). Painting by… Read More
A Sultana or Kaddin of the Imperial Ottoman Harem.
The Plate itself is a portrait of a Sultana or Odalisk, and are called, Kaddins, or Kadeuns.
A Tchocadar, servant to affluent Ottoman house.
Choi or Tchocadar Aga. Every person, who can afford it, constantly employs a great number of domestics, called Tchocadars.
The Grand Vizier. Ottoman Empire officials and ethnic groups.
The Supreme Vizier or Grand Vizier (Wazir-e Azam and Sadr Azam) was in several Muslim countries, the Prime Minister
Bostandji Bachi, official of the Sublime Gate. Ottoman Empire officials.
Bostancı başı. They are, indeed, most excellent rowers, and are always employed as such in the Sultan’s caique, or barge, which is steered by the Bostandji Bachi.
A Turkish lady in her wedding dress. Ottoman Empire.
Historical Ottoman Empire officials and ethnic groups. On her wedding-day the bride dresses herself in the richest clothes she can procure, and puts on all the jewels and other valuables she is possessed of.
An Attendant of the harem of the Grand Signior. Ottoman Empire.
Responsible for order in the Sultan’s harem. The business of the lady, who is the subject of this plate, is to preserve such order, and to punish the Odalisks
Stool bearer to the Turkish Sultan. Ottoman Empire.
Stool bearer to the Turkish Sultan. (in charge of guarding and carrying the Sultan’s riding stool).
The Chief Usher to the Turkish Sultan. Ottoman Empire.
One of their employments, among others, is to present every one who is introduced at court, or approaches the fool of the throne; and, on some particular occasions, this is done by the chief usher himself.