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7 introduction Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century Nebahat Avcıoğlu and Finbarr Barry Flood

39 a roomful of mirrors The Artful Embrace of Mughals and Franks, 1550–1700 Sanjay Subrahmanyam

84 looking east Jean-Etienne Liotard, the Turkish Painter Kristel Smentek

113 eighteenth-century ottoman princesses as collectors From Chinese to European Porcelain Tülay Artan

148 translating visions A Japanese Lacquer Plaque of the Haram of Mecca in the L. A. Mayer Memorial Museum, Jerusalem Anton Schweizer and Avinoam Shalem

175 the “palais indiens” collection of 1774 Representing Mughal Architecture in Late Eighteenth-Century India Chanchal Dadlani

198 “dressing turks in the french manner” Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Panorama of the Elisabeth A. Fraser

231 history or theory? French Antiquarianism, Cairene Architecture, and Enlightenment Thinking Mercedes Volait

elisabeth a. fraser “dressing turks in the french manner” Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Panorama of the Ottoman Empire

1 (facing) Abstract A. Girardet, anon., Giraud, Langlois, An Ottoman Armenian dragoman (interpreter) active in Constantinople, Mou- engravings after J. B. Hilair, radge