Talk:Turquerie

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I have removed "This was about Mehmed IV’s Siege of Vienna and the captivity he faced after losing. It entailed a passionate love triangle and suicide.[1]" - follow the links and check the dates (and Tamerlano) to see why. I don't know whart is intended maybe it can be salvaged. Johnbod (talk) 16:31, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

Time to Talk:Turquerie: European watches with Arabic numbers are not made as turqueries for European consumption, but made for the Turkish market.
Turqueries, things Turkish, and imitation Turkish goods (not identical) that could be mentioned: lit à la turque, ladies in turbans (1780-1795), robe à la turque, "visites à la Turque""; tulips, lilacs, Levant Company; Olivier Ghislain de Busbecq; English turkeywork chairs c 1650; Die Entführing aus dem Serail, film Yankee Pasha (1954, a "rescue opera" without music, in film), porcelain coffee services by Meissen, etc, Mozart's Rondo à la Turque (from Sonata in A Major K331), Jean-Étienne Liotard, France and Dutch faience imitating Isnik ceramics, bagnio, alcove, divan, ottoman, kiosk, sultanas. I don't know where to start. --Wetman (talk) 21:07, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
Now, Johnbod, a Turkish subject is not a turquerie, any more than a C19 volume of travels in Anatolia, such as F.V.J. Arundell, Discoveries in Asia Minor: Including a Description of the Ruins of Several Ancient Cities, Espcially Antioch of Pisidia, 2 vols. (London) 1834. I've recently read that Meissen produced coffee services specifically for the Turkish market (changing the crossed sword mark, lest it offend!). A subsection here should be Goods for the Turkish market, distinguishing this category from fanciful turqueries specifically for the Western taste. It's a whole category that includes English and Parisian clocks and watches. And the automata and music boxes specifically made for the Ottoman court. For turquerie on the other hand there's the hoax, a fake chess-playing "automaton" called The Turk (an excellent article, btw!). This article should include links to Sublime Porte and "Grand Turk", a figure of terror and fascination for Europeans. --Wetman (talk) 05:13, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In DYK (template?)

Where's that template?

DarkestMoonlight (talk) 14:05, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Blame Nick! --74.13.131.25 (talk) 17:29, 9 April 2008 (UTC)