C.H Morgan II, M. Hill, Piet de Jong 1937

Marble pendant in a twelve-pointed form. The pendant is worn on a cord around the neck by followers of the Sufi order of the Bektashi's. The pendant is part of the costume of the B...

Tara is chief among the best known ‘royal’ sites of Ireland, including Dún Ailinne in Leinster, Crúachain in Connacht and Emain Macha in Ulster. It is at once a landmark and a vant...

Character: description on folk. 6b - 9b, miniature on folk. 8a, 153 x 164 mm. Quarterly shield with heart label that is pollen. To the right in the red lies two Turkish heads in th...

Earring (mengüş) of crystal for Bektashi Sufis. This earring was worn by Mehmed Ali Hilmi Baba (1842-1907), Bektashi poet and baba (superior) of the dargah of Şahkulu in Istanbul. ...

This silver ewer was part of the cargo of the Spanish Silver Fleet that Piet Heyn captured by order of the Dutch West India Company in 1628. ‘This ewer comes from the Silver Fleet ...