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.
Bostandji Bachi, official of the Sublime Gate. Ottoman Empire officials.
Tag: Ottoman Empire costumes
Ottoman Empire costumes history. Turkish Empire clothing. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu.
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.
A Usher at the court of the Turkish Sultan. Ottoman empire.
That body of men, to whom Europeans give the name of Ushers, is of a very great use in the court of the Grand Signior.
The Chief confectioner to the Sultan. Ottoman Empire.
The confectioner to the palace. Chief confectioner of the Turkish Sultan.
An Armenian. Ottoman Empire costume.
An Armenian. Ottoman Empire.
Ottoman Empire, Sultan Mehmed II.
Ottoman Empire, Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II. (1432-1481 ) Painting by Gentile Bellini (not proved), 25 November 1480.
Dinner of an European Ambassador in the Hall of the Divan.
Dinner of an European Ambassador with the Grand Vizier in the Hall of the Divan. The Divan of the Sublime Porte was the council of the Ottoman Empire.