with appliquéd cotton panels of red, yellow, blue and cream, the sides with blazon roundels with interlocking polygons enclosed by wreath borders, the interstices with palmette hearts, the upper section with calligraphic inscriptions reserved on blue ground cartouches, rounded mihrab arcade below, the top with a monumental stellar medallion encircled by alterating hearts and trefoils with wreath border, further calligraphic cartouches reserved on a red ground

Reputedly purchased by HRH Prince of Wales in Alexandria in March 1875

inscriptions

Verses in Arabic in praise of [the tent] and praying for its protection against damage through time.

A comparable tent, probably used by General Wladyslaw Zamoyski (1803-68) during his stay at Üsküdar, with the Ottoman Cossacks, can be found in the Kórnik Library (PAN inv.no.MK 2537/a,b, see the exhibition catalogue War and Peace, Istanbul, 1999, p.388, no.304).