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TITLE OF WORK: Valide Sultana watching two female dancers and two little jugglers

TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature

DATE: 1689

DATE DETAILS: approx.

COMMENTS: Valide Sultana was the most powerful woman in the imperial harem. This work was commissionned by Madame Girardin, wife of the French ambassador to the Sublime Porte

LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,

DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, female, duo

KEYWORDS: castanets, flute, tambourine, fountain, rebek