Other large objects of a thoroughly oriental character were earthenware glazed _brocales_ or brims of wells, which, like the _tinajas_, were largely manufactured at Seville and Toledo. Specimens of these _brocales_ exist in the museums of Toledo and Cordova. Riaño describes one which is at South Kensington. "It was bought at Toledo for three guineas at a shoemaker's shop. It is made of glazed white and green earthenware, with ornamental Cufic characters in high relief all round, which appear to be of the fourteenth century. The inscription, which is repeated, is imperfect, and all that I can decipher are the words 'the power, the excellence, and the peace.'" Gestoso describes two _brocales_ and the fragments of a third. All these objects were found at Seville. The two which are intact, or nearly so, are cylindrical, and of a white ware. One of them has a simple leaf decoration, and seems to have been covered with a green glaze. The other, which was discovered in 1894, is surrounded by a triple band of inscription in African characters which are illegible. Gestoso also describes some interesting baptismal fonts, a class of object which he pronounces to have been the most important of all that were produced in the potteries of Triana, by reason both of their large dimensions and of their elaborate ornamentation. He states that three methods were employed to decorate these fonts. The first consisted in attaching to their surface small moulded plates which bore the likeness of a saint, flowers, monograms, or other devices. By the second method the decoration was moulded directly on the font; while the third method consisted in a combination of the other two. Splendid examples of these Spanish fonts exist in various churches of Andalusia and in private collections. One of the finest is in the parish church of Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, at Laguna, Tenerife. It is suggested by Gestoso that this _pila_ of Laguna was made at Seville and sent to the Canaries in the year 1479, when orders were issued by Ferdinand and Isabella for the completion of the monasteries in those islands. _Pilas_ were also manufactured at Toledo, although Gestoso says that the workmanship of those produced at Seville was in every way superior. Nevertheless, he has only found the maker's name upon a single font, which is inscribed with that of Juan Sanchez Vachero, and is now preserved in the church of San Pedro at Carmona. Another remarkable _pila_ is that of the hospital of San Lázaro at Seville. In course of time the Spanish Church forbade the use of _pilas_ made of glazed earthenware, and ordered their substitution by fonts of stone or marble. One of these dispositions, included among the _Constituciones Sinodales_ of the bishopric of Málaga, and dated 1671, is quoted by Gestoso. It enacts that the _pila_ be of stone and not of earthenware, and that if any of this latter class remain, they are to be "consumed" (_i.e._ destroyed) within two months.