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Toy soldiers inspired by Turkish miniature art

Levni shows this evening’s fireworks displays, which are described in elaborate detail by Vehbi, as taking place beneath a starry sky and a crescent moon on 19th September 1720. In leaf 101a, tent-firework is ablaze in the upper right as skyrockets hurtle upwards and left and right. Just right of center is another figure garbed in fireworks. According to Vehbi, this performance was staged by members of the Engineers corps. He was dressed in a "cloak" fashioned from fireworks. The rectangular frame around his neck on which more fireworks are set because he was a bread-seller who had been caught using false weights and was to be punished. The mechanical elephant in the foreground is another work by the Arsenal corps. It is being operated by three corpsmen seated in a howdah on the beast’s back. As this contraption marched around the field it continuously spouted fireworks from its trunk. Behind the elephant is a fireworks display fashioned like a water-wheel from whose buckets pour sparks instead of water.
Toy soldiers inspired by Turkish miniature art
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Toy Soldiers inspired by Turkish Miniature Art by indos miniatures Theme: Evening fireworks displays at Okmeydanı Resource: Surname-i Vehbi , Read More

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