Glassell Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Staffs, topped by gold-covered finials, are the emblems ... regalia (an early 20th-century sword ornament) and symbolized a chief's military ...

The Taj Mahal was originally adorned with a 466 kg gold finial, removed by British officer Joseph Taylor in 1810 and replaced with a gold-plated copper version. Subsequent replacements in 1876 and ...