Turkey
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 343 objects from Turkey. These date broadly from 1430 to 1918. This collection comprises piled carpets, costume and textiles, ceramic vessels, coins and medals, jewellery, and arms and armour. The majority of the objects belong to various eras of the Ottoman Empire, with the Burrell Collection textiles dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, the Iznik ceramics from the 15th to 17th centuries, and the carpets from the 18th and 19th centuries. Clothing in the collection includes jackets, caftans, a military suit, slippers, several embroidered pieces, a rug and a dervish’s cap. Weaponry comprises swords, rifles, pistols and daggers. Metal objects include calligraphy tools, flint strikers, a razor and a plate and bowl. There are several ceramic plates and vessels, and also various charms and talismans. The collection further contains other disparate items such as a tombstone, a saddle, tobacco pipes, mirrors, a donkey’s necklace and shadow puppets. The Ottoman Empire was a Turkish-ruled region that, at its height, commanded parts of north Africa, the Middle East and south-eastern Europe. The empire came into existence in the 13th century and reached the height its power in the 16th century. Its slow decline destabilized much of eastern Europe and the Middle East until it was ultimately abolished in 1922.
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