"Topkapi Palace's inventory includes around 22,000 porcelain items, 12,000 of which are Chinese. This collection is globally unparalleled outside of China itself," Kocaman said, noting that many ...

setting them apart from the more common blue-and-white porcelain typically seen in China. Ilhan Kocaman, the director of the Topkapi Palace Museum, said that most of these porcelains were custom ...

Topkapi Palace served as the home of the Ottoman Sultans from 1478 to 1856 and is one of Istanbul's most popular attractions. It officially became a museum in 1924, shortly after the end of the ...