Featured Istanbul Antique shops

The Buyer that purchased a Royal Vienna style tea cup and saucer from me has antique shops in Istanbul, he sent me a link to his instagram page with his antiques.
Hope you all like it as much as i did.

https://www.instagram.com/antiquemania/


Mikey

 

Some very nice and enticing photography! I smell a marketing degree......................

oh, yeah, some NICE stock as well!

Thanks for the link.

 

Looks like he likes Royal Vienna porcelain. That makes sense; the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian one were neighbors and major trading partners. I'm just surprised he's willing to display some of the less fully clad ladies. There are parts of Turkey where such images could land you in trouble.

 

Turkey has been pretty good at the division of church and state until recently as well, so it may not be an issue - yet.
And at the risk of sounding like a stereotyping idiot, I don't t think that the more orthodox of the religion would be perusing sites for European antiques anyway.

 

The radical murderous cretins might. The far Eastern part of the country is developing a problem with them. The official Government doesn't care, but... Christians and minorities out near the border are running into real trouble.

 

Lots of pink and lots of flowers. Now we known what sells in Istanbul. Not one piece of mid century hmmm
Thanks for sharing.

 

That's why I qualified with a "yet". Historically, things have been more secular that sacred, but more recently the entire tinderbox could go up at any moment.

 

The shop is in Istanbul, which is the most Western city, not just geographically. There are huge cultural, developmental and political differences in Turkey. Unfortunately our next-door neighbours migrated from a more belligerent part of Turkey, as we have experienced frequently.

 

Glad you all liked the site. I was copying and pasting the descriptions into google translate for an hour and some of those are pretty pricey here in the States.

 

I've been to Turkey many times, and my part of London has many Turkish inhabitants. I have never ever had a problem with any of them. Come to that,not had a problem with any of our locals that could be ascribed to faith or ethnicity or whatever.

But then, I live somewhere that has been a bugger's muddle for centuries, let alone decades. As is my family. Perhaps people sometimes get what they expect. The few nasty meanies I've known have been that way because that's how they were, not for any faith or culture reasons. One of the vilest was a Christian preacher, but his evil had nothing to do with faith.

I have many Muslim neighbours - and friends - and they worry about exactly the same things as anyone else, and are as good neighbours as anyone else. I saw one this morning who I'd not seen for ages - a huge hug and asked after Himself, who she knew had been for check ups.

Frankly, the US seems to have more of a problem separating church and state from what I've seen, especially of late.

Mansons, one of the biggest markets in London for antiques is the wealthy from Saudi, the UAE and other Middle Eastern nations. Come to that, the women from those countries keep shops like Selfridges and Harrods going.

 

My best friends sister in law is from Turkey,a lovely woman,but that stuff in the link is right up her alley! She never met a gilded,putti laden item she didnt love.I dont judge,because in the not too distant past I also had a love affair with all things overblown!

 

Sweeping generalisation time, but some Middle Eastern taste does seem to run to the slightly OTT and a bit blingy. Fits with historical style, if you think about Byzantine and such. Having said that, Moorish art is rather spare.

 

Indian decorative pieces can run that way too - as far over the top as possible. Czech porcelains, even 20th century, can also head in that direction. There used to be a shop in the local mall selling all Czech imports, and a lot of it was in the same vein. And if the porcelains were ornate, the chandeliers were bling with a B. I think it's the Austro-Hungarian influence, and of course the Turkish/Ottoman designs coming across the border. Too bad we didn't have the Middle-eastern population then that we do now or the store might still be in business.

 

My ancestry is a mix of just about every nation between western Europe and Vietnam, including Arab, and I sometimes think this taste-thing is genetic. I have these sudden 'attacks' when I like ott and bling. Other times I love austere Northern Modernism. A genetic battlefield? Confusing, but I've learnt to live with it.

 

If only the millions of Armenians, Circassians, Ethnic Greeks had thought of that, silly them. But maybe it is not to late for those who survived and for the millions of Kurds, Turkish Christians, Alawi, and other non-Sunni Muslims. Or even those who are just not the right kind of Sunni. Let's forget geo-political truth and the fact that Turkish education is still based on ethnic and religious supremacist rubbish, in spite of the layicist foundation of modern Turkey.
Come on, there is more to the world than just our friends and neighbourhood. As Evelyb30 said, there are problems in eastern Turkey.

 

That sentence of mine wasn't referring to Turkey. Please don't separate my words from the context they relate to.

 

Whatever people get, good or bad, has a lot to do with chance, circumstance and other things beyond their control. That goes for people in London, Turkey, or anywhere else. We all hope for a good life, peace, a roof over our head, food, a nice neighbourhood, etc. and many expect that too. Others know they can expect all they like, but they will be given whatever circumstance, and life in general, deals them.

 

This has gone rather far afield, but... we control how we react to circumstances, if not the circumstances themselves. Turks seem to react by buying gaudy porcelain and cherry amber, bakelite or natural. (dunno about you but I'm happy to sell it to them!)

 

"This has gone rather far afield"

Agreed...