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RUGS AND CARPETS FROM DISTINGUISHED COLLECTIONS AUCTION LONDON 3 NOVEMBER 2015 Viewing 30 October & 1–3 November An unusually small Oushak Medallion carpet, West Anatolia, late 16th century. Estimate £12,000–£18,000. Enquiries +44 (0)20 7293 5556 rugs.london@sothebys.com 34–35 New Bond Street, London W1A 2AA sothebys.com/londonrugs
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Contents Turkey for Connoisseurs ISTANBUL UNWRAPPED Part Four of Cornucopia’s Celebration of Istanbul The Princes Islands Istanbul’s unspoilt archipelago A 64-page portrait, with photographs by Brian McKee and Monica Fritz · 64 Setting the scene Each to Their Own – the four principal islands · 66 Büyükada The Writer’s Island, by Owen Matthews · 74 Sights and Delights of an Enchanted Isle · 78 Heybeliada Notes on a Smaller Island · 98 Burgazada One-Hill Burgaz, by Harriet Rix · 108 Kınaliada Echoes of a Golden Age, by Harriet Rix · 112 Yassiada The haunted island, by Owen Matthews · 120 Portfolio The Empire Unvarnished Luigi Mayer’s Ottoman watercolours, by Briony Llewellyn · 48 Connoisseur Tim Cornwell on Jean-Étienne Liotard’s luminous portraits at the Royal Academy · 5 Three archaeological exhibitions, in Istanbul, Berlin and Philadelphia · 12 Sotheby’s winning talismanic shirt; Zero at the SSM; Bare, Naked, Nude at the Pera Museum · 22 Thomas Roueché on the 2015 Istanbul Biennial · 24 Books A tryst with turquerie, Albania and the Ottomans, Istanbul in the Jazz Age, Victoria’s man in Istanbul, the mysterious Armand de Potter, and a caique named Bouboulina · 31 Cookery Broad Bean Feast Twelve thousand years of taste and nourishment, by Berrin Torolsan · 128 Regulars Private View by Andrew Finkel · 27 Ottoman Lives by David Barchard · 44 Ancient and Modern by John Carswell · 134 Village Voices by Azize Ethem · 136 Eating Out by Andrew Finkel · 139 Letter from Anatolia by Roger Norman · 143 Cover Jean-Étienne Liotard: Laura Tarsi, ‘a Grecian Lady’, c.1745–49, watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, height 96mm © Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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Contents Turkey for Connoisseurs

ISTANBUL UNWRAPPED Part Four of Cornucopia’s Celebration of Istanbul

The Princes Islands

Istanbul’s unspoilt archipelago

A 64-page portrait, with photographs by Brian McKee and Monica Fritz · 64

Setting the scene

Each to Their Own – the four principal islands · 66

Büyükada

The Writer’s Island, by Owen Matthews · 74 Sights and Delights of an Enchanted Isle · 78

Heybeliada Notes on a Smaller Island · 98

Burgazada One-Hill Burgaz, by Harriet Rix · 108

Kınaliada

Echoes of a Golden Age, by Harriet Rix · 112

Yassiada

The haunted island, by Owen Matthews · 120

Portfolio

The Empire Unvarnished Luigi Mayer’s Ottoman watercolours, by Briony Llewellyn · 48

Connoisseur

Tim Cornwell on Jean-Étienne Liotard’s luminous portraits at the Royal Academy · 5

Three archaeological exhibitions, in Istanbul, Berlin and Philadelphia · 12 Sotheby’s winning talismanic shirt; Zero at the SSM; Bare, Naked, Nude at the Pera Museum · 22

Thomas Roueché on the 2015 Istanbul Biennial · 24

Books

A tryst with turquerie, Albania and the Ottomans, Istanbul in the Jazz Age, Victoria’s man in Istanbul,

the mysterious Armand de Potter, and a caique named Bouboulina · 31

Cookery

Broad Bean Feast Twelve thousand years of taste and nourishment, by Berrin Torolsan · 128

Regulars

Private View by Andrew Finkel · 27 Ottoman Lives by David Barchard · 44 Ancient and Modern by John Carswell · 134 Village Voices by Azize Ethem · 136 Eating Out by Andrew Finkel · 139 Letter from Anatolia by Roger Norman · 143

Cover Jean-Étienne Liotard: Laura Tarsi, ‘a Grecian Lady’, c.1745–49, watercolour and bodycolour on ivory, height 96mm

© Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

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