A vase of the same kind, which belonged to the painter, Mariano Fortuny, and which was sold at the sale of his art objects in Paris, April 30th, 1875. (_Vide_ "Atelier de Fortuny," Paris, 1875.) A fragment of another vase, which belonged also to Fortuny, and was sold at the same time. A fragment of a vase at the Museo of Granada; it is similar to the others in form and size, but without metallic lustre. A large plaque, or _azulejo_, which belonged also to Fortuny. The _azulejos_, or tile decorations of the house known by the name of Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo at Granada. Several dishes and bowls at the Kensington, Madrid, and Cluny Museums, which belong to this period. Baron Charles Davillier in his article on Hispano-Moresque lustred ware, in "Atelier de Fortuny," Paris, 1875, says that interesting specimens of this pottery exist also at the Museum of Stockholm, and the Cathedral of Mezzara in Sicily, but that he had not had the opportunity of studying them. [Illustration: MOORISH VASE AT THE ALHAMBRA.] All these objects have hitherto been considered to have proceeded from Malaga, writers on ceramic art derived their evidence from the text already mentioned, given in Ben Batutah's travels, the only one which alluded to the existence of this industry in Spain before the 15th century; but since I have found in Edrisi's Geography a manufacture mentioned of lustred pottery which existed at Calatayud at the beginning of the 12th century, that is to say, more than _two centuries_ earlier than Ben Batutah's travels, I consider it extremely difficult to classify them. The fine vase at the Alhambra is 4 feet 5½ inches high by 8 feet 2½ inches in circumference. It is decorated in the centre with two antelopes, and a series of elegant traceries of knots, stems, and leaves which cover the body of the vase. The colours employed are brown and blue on a yellow ground, the metallic lustre is extremely pale, of a mother-of-pearl colour. The following inscriptions are repeated all over the vase in African characters: [Illustration: Arabic Felicity and Fortune.] [Illustration: Arabic Permanent prosperity.] A similar vase was at the Alhambra until the beginning of the present century; it disappeared at that time, and its present whereabouts is unknown. Drawings exist of this vase which have been published in Lozano's "Ant. Arab. de España," and Murphy's Atlas of "Arabian Ant. of Spain."