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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in
Costumes Turcs
Vol. I Folio 106. Kalyoncu çavuş
Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Galongi Tschausch.
Painting (watercolour). Folio 106 from an album showing Turkish costume. Kalyoncu çavuş. A çavuş (warrant officer) of the navy. Wearing a green kaftan with long cuffs edged with white buttons, grey striped blouse, broad red kuşak with a sword which protudes through a slit in the kaftan, wide blue trousers to the ankle and a flat red turban wound in large folds.
British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.106
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez
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