Lot Essay
See Anthony Ray, Spanish Pottery (London, 2000), pl. 71, no. 637 for a tile with the same unidentified arms, which differs from the arms of León-Castilla in having a wolf or dog in the lower quarter. Tiles of this type were used to adorn spaces between ceiling beams, and as Ray points out, 'relatively few specimens have survived', and tiles bearing this coat of arms originate from just a few buildings, which 'presumably belonged to the same overlord'.