It is twenty metres long, eight metres wide and six metres high: It is the seventeenth-century tent of silk and gilded leather, today the highlight of the Türckische Cammer in the Dresden Residenzschloss (Royal Palace). The tent came to Dresden as early as 1729, at a time when numerous European courts were amassing collections of spoils coming from the Turkish Wars. Today the Türckische Cammer in Dresden is one of the most significant collections of Ottoman art outside Turkey. This is due in large part to the extraordinarily good documentation of the history of the objects as well as to the many exhibits from the sixteenth century, which can be found nowhere else in such abundance.