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Sersop (aka zırzop)

Illustration 135 from:

Costumes Orientaux
Recueil de costumes et vêtements de l'Empire ottoman au 18e siècle
Collection of costumes and clothing of the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century
Owned by Joseph Gabriel Monnier

Pachalerugn alaï tchouassi : bouffon des pachas
jester of the pashas

Sersop ya da zırzop; soytarı (jester) is a term used in the sense of humorous and is the name of the person in charge of making the sultan laugh in his spare time in the palace. He is depicted in the same way in all of the new period albums. Only in the Pichelstein Album, he is depicted in two different ways, one as a sultan and the other as a Hacivat vagrant.
Source: Osmanlı kıyafet albümleri (1770-1810) by Nurdan Küçükhasköylü


Compare a Soytarı, Vol. I Folio 135. in Costumes Turcs, the Diez album.