A group of fourteen Arista tiles, Toledo and Granada, Spain, 15th/16th century

thirteen of square form, moulded and glazed in white, blue, green and honey-brown, decorated with floral, foliate and animal forms, the other of rectangular form moulded with a white inscription on a terracotta and blue scroll ground, bordered by blue key-fret bands

Tiles of identical design to the olambrilla C-scroll tiles are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see Ray 2000, p.349, no.847. The large square tile relates to four mid sixteenth-century tiles in the Victoria and Albert Museum, (ibid ., p342, no.799).  The rectangular calligraphic tile is probably fifteenth century and is closely comparable to the tiles seen decorating the Patio de los Arrayanes in the Alhambra (see Gladius, tomo XXV (2005), Instituto de Historia, Madrid, p.299).