Thank you for the travel through the palace! I know you know I took good looks at the sword and the ornate blinged out knife! I was amazed at the tilework! That pattern is consistent, though – the red flowers with the blue vines.
There were some feasts for the soldiers where all the food was placed on the ground (on trays) and everyone scrambled to get theirs--or didn't as a form of strike. Definitely different strokes!
I started to say you can bring me that Chinese blue & white porcelain bowl, and the zincware, then the jeweled box or two, and the divan and the dessert and... actually almost every photo had me wanting something! Of course I had to look up why I know the word Topkapi... the imdb says it was a 1964 movie with Peter Ustinov about "a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger."
You had me at "künefe"!
Thank you for the travel through the palace! I know you know I took good looks at the sword and the ornate blinged out knife! I was amazed at the tilework! That pattern is consistent, though – the red flowers with the blue vines.
Sending loads of love!
I definitely thought of you with the blades! The history of some of the pieces is really mind-boggling.
Ha -- we used a photo of that tilework on thank you cards at CJP! Fascinating to see where it actually comes from.
Wow! That's amazing.
Absolutely stunning. Alice. Has anything you have seen or experienced inspired you to write a poem?
We talked about something making a good poem yesterday, but I've since forgotten the subject.
Enjoyed the palace tour, that napkin-sharing is wild.
There were some feasts for the soldiers where all the food was placed on the ground (on trays) and everyone scrambled to get theirs--or didn't as a form of strike. Definitely different strokes!
I started to say you can bring me that Chinese blue & white porcelain bowl, and the zincware, then the jeweled box or two, and the divan and the dessert and... actually almost every photo had me wanting something! Of course I had to look up why I know the word Topkapi... the imdb says it was a 1964 movie with Peter Ustinov about "a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger."
Hard to beat the name of the Spoonmaker's Diamond.
Wikipedia has a bunch of different stories to explain it.