An Ottoman Carved Marble Funerary Finial in the form of a Turban, Turkey, Circa 18th Century

of flattened rounded form and domical finial, carved with wide stylised folds

Knocks and bumps, as viewed
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The form of the turban suggests that the deceased was a member of one of the religious orders which flourished in Turkey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.