Cornucopia 19 : Forgotten Riches

Eastern overtures
War and Peace: Ottoman Relations in the 15th to 19th centuries', an exhibition at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, 1999
by Philip Mansel

For 500 years the Polish elite was obsessed with all things Ottoman. Yet a brilliant exhibition celebrating this passion went sadly unnoticed.

Turkish musicians at the British embassy in Istanbul, 1779. This miniature, a copy now in Warsaw University Library, belonged to King Stanislaw August Poniatowski of Poland