Dec 13, 2024
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Topkapı Sarayı 🌹🌹
Tughra of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. Ottoman Empire. 1555-1560 CE.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Gilded reverse heart shaped tughra, belongs to Sultan Mahmud the second, 1832.
Tughra of Sultan Ahmed III c. 1700-30 A.D. The tughra reads: Shah Ahmed bin Mehmed han, al-muzaffer daima (i.e. "King Ahmed, son of the Ruler Mehmed, forever victorious")
Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
Tughra of Murad III (r.1574-95)
THE DECORATIVE ANNEX
[One-off objects related to the on-going series on ornament and decoration.]
Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent 1555/60 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
The official royal insignia of the Ottoman sultan embellished by a calligrapher for display purposes.
The Imperial Council Hall at Topkapi Palace