I am not aware of any Moorish _celosía_ remaining to this day outside a Spanish building. In such exposed positions weather and the natural delicacy of the woodwork seem to have destroyed them all. As an interior ornament, a single one (Pl. xvi.) exists in the Alhambra. Nevertheless, I hesitate to call this _celosía_ purely Moorish. Perhaps it is the work of a Morisco, or even of a Christian-Spaniard, for we know that decorative wooden fittings for the Alhambra were made in the sixteenth century by Antonio Navarro and other craftsmen. The grating, which is well preserved, covers a window over the archway leading from the Hall of the Two Sisters into the Sala de los Ajimeces and the Mirador de Daraxa, and consists of minute prisms and turned pieces in the typical Egyptian style. [Illustration: XXVII CHOIR STALLS (_San Márcos, León_)] Other fittings for a building, wrought in wood by Moorish artists and by these communicated to the Christian-Spaniards, were balustrades and cornices, _aleros_ (decorative bands beneath the eaves of a roof, Plate xvii.) and _zapatas_ (gargoyle-looking figures, often in human form, used to support a roof or gallery). In the so-called "Patio de las Asas" of the convent of Santa Catalina de Zafra, at Granada, exists an interesting Moorish balustrade[47] that seems almost untouched by time. I reproduce an outline of it as the tailpiece to the present chapter, and am glad to append the little sketch in question, copied from a photograph I took upon the spot three years ago, because it is almost impossible to obtain admission to this convent. Beautiful or uncouth and quaint _zapatas_ may be seen in the Casa de los Tiros at Granada, and in many other places (Plates xviii. and xix.). Much of the Moorish woodwork of the palace of the Alhambra was destroyed by the fire of 1590, but there yet remain the ample cornice and carved _alero_ of the façade of the Cuarto de Comares (Plate xx.), which is often called in error the Court of the Mezquita. This _alero_ bears the following inscription, allusive to the Sultan Mohammed the Fifth:--"I am the place where the crown is guarded, and on my doors being opened the regions of the west believe the east to be contained within me. Algami Billah charged me to keep guard upon the doorway." [47] Almagro Cardenas calls it "part of a _celosía_" (_Museo Granadino_, p. 79); but as it can never have been a window-grating, this term is incorrect. Gómez Moreno calls it, not too lucidly, "a wooden balustrade forming squares and rectangular figures in the manner of a _celosía_" (_Guía de Granada_, p. 421). Valladar (_Guía de Granada_, edition of 1906, p. 117) calls it simply a balustrade, and this, it seems to me, is the only term which truthfully describes the object.