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Illustrations of Ottomans circa 1790 in

Costumes Turcs
Vol. I Folio 128. Overseer cook of the cebecis


Image source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü
Ousta, cuisinier des Degbedgis.
Painting (watercolour). Folio 128 from an album showing Turkish costume. Overseer cook of the cebecis who were the armourers attached to a special military corps. Has culinary equipment, including knives and eleven dishes, hung about him and attached to his belt. Brown and red (leather?) garment. Large round white turban wound a green cap.

British Museum. Registration number: 1974,0617,0.12.1.128
Previously owned by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

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